Laura Wright (author)
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Biography
Wright was born in MinnesotaMinnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
. As an adult, she pursued a career as an actress, singer, and competitive ballroom dancer, teaching ballroom dancing and Latin dancing for over a decade. After many years of reading romance novels, Wright left dancing and attempted to write romantic fiction. After three years of writing, she sold a manuscript to Harlequin books
Harlequin Enterprises Ltd
Harlequin Enterprises Limited is a Toronto, Ontario-based company that is a publisher of series romance and women's fiction. Owned by the Torstar Corporation, the largest newspaper publisher in Canada, the company publishes approximately 120 new titles each month in 29 different languages in 107...
for their Silhouette Desire line of category romances.
Wright has been twice nominated for a Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, for 2002's Baby and the Beast and in 2004 for Redwolf's Woman. She is married and lives in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
with her husband and their two children.
Novels
- Hearts Are Wild (2002)
- Cinderella and the Playboy (2002)
- Baby and the Beast (2002)
- Locked Up with a Lawman (2003)
- Ruling Passions (2003)
- Charming the Prince (2003)
- Sleeping with Beauty (2003)
- A Bed of Sand (2004)
- Lawman (2004)
- Redwolf's Woman (2004)
- Her Royal Bed (2005)
- Savor the Seduction (2005)
- The Sultan's Bed (2005)
- Millionaire's Calculated Baby Bid (2007)
- Playboy's Ruthless Payback (2007)
- Rich Man's Vengeful Seduction (2007)
Omnibus
- Cinderella and the Playboy / Quade - The Irresistible One (2004) (with Bronwyn Jameson)
- Plain Jane and the Hotshot / Charming the Prince (2004) (with Meagan McKinneyMeagan McKinneyRuth Goodman is an American writer of 20 romance novels , writing as Meagan McKinney.-Biography:Ruth Goodman was born in 1961. She studied Biology at University, and she worked for several years as a biologist, before starting to write professionally...
) - The Cowboy Claims His Lady / Sleeping with Beauty (2004) (with Meagan McKinney)
- Full Throttle / Ruling Passions (2004) (with Merline Lovelace)
- Meeting at Midnight / Bed of Sand (2004) (with Eileen WilksEileen WilksEileen Wilks is an American award-winning fiction writer living in Midland, Texas.- Biography :Wilks lives in the West Texas town of Midland, Texas, and has previously, as a child, lived in Canada and Venezuela as well as twelve U.S...
) - A Tempting Engagement / Redwolf's Woman (2004) (with Bronwyn Jameson)
- Mail-order Prince in Her Bed / Hearts are Wild (2004) (with Kathryn Jensen)
- Taken by Storm: Whirlwind / Upsurge / Wildfire (2005) (with Kathie DeNosky, Kristi GoldKristi GoldKristi Gold is an American writer of over 25 romance novels since 2000.-Biography:Kristi Gold decided at the age of twenty to write her first book. In 2000 her first book was published. Gold is married to a physician, and they have three children...
) - Having the Best Man's Baby / Baby and the Beast (2005) (with Shawna Delacorte)
- Secrets, Lies... and Passion / Baby and the Beast (2005) (with Linda Conrad)
- Entangled with a Texan / Locked Up with a Lawman (2005) (with Sara Orwig)
- Sleeping with Beauty / Her Convenient Millionaire (2005) (with Gail Dayton)
- Whatever Reilly Wants... / Sultan's Bed (2005) (with Maureen ChildMaureen ChildMaureen Child is an American writer of over 50 romance novels since 1990. She has written under the pen names Ann Carberry, Sara Hart and Kathleen Kane.-Biography:...
) - A Bed Of Sand / Principles and Pleasures (2005) (with Margaret Allison)
- Rock Me All Night / Her Royal Bed (2005) (with Katherine Garbera)
- Heart of the Raven / Sultans Bed (2006) (with Susan Crosby)
- Kept Woman / Her Royal Bed (2006) (with Sheri Whitefeather)
- Savour the Seduction / Name Your Price (2006) (with Barbara McCauleyBarbara McCauleyBarbara McCauley is a popular romance writer. She has written over 35 romance novels for Harlequin Enterprises since 1991.-Biography:...
) - Dangerous Desires (2007) (with Kathie DeNosky, Kristi Gold)