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Royally Claimed
Royally Claimed
Royally Claimed
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Royally Claimed

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Once upon a time, a handsome and eligible Portuguese duke Duke Francisco Duarte das Santas Aguas(aka Frank) returned to his fairy–tale villa, the same magical villa where he found true love as a teenager. But when an unexpected reunion with his long–ago love Julia Cooper leads to a sizzling night with one simple kiss (aka an incredibly hot night), their slumbering chemistry is awake and how!

It t go back to sleep easily. After all those lost years, can Frank and Julia still find their fairy–tale ending?

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Release dateJul 1, 2012
ISBN9781460846247
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MARIE DONOVAN

To award-winning author Marie Donovan, writing romance is a dream come true after so many years of avid reading. She got her fill of tragedies and unhappy endings by majoring in opera/vocal performance and Spanish literature. During those years of singing about operatic heroines who inevitably met bad ends, and reading about political prisons and horrible civil wars, she devoured romances whenever she could. Her first attempt at romance fiction was a gothic-type short contemporary where the teenage heroine actually ran into the dark and stormy night to escape her abusive father. That manuscript currently lurks in the depths of her hard drive, waiting to be cannibalized for a future book. After taking off several years from writing fiction, Marie won a bookstore gift certificate and took it as a sign to get started writing romance again. She promptly ordered several how-to books on writing romance novels and read them until they were dog-eared. Fortunately, as she smartened up about writing romances, so did her heroines. Harlequin's wonderful Blaze line inspired her to try her hand at sensual romance. Her manuscript won several Romance Writers of America chapter contests and sold to the Blaze series in January 2005. Marie has worked for a large suburban public library district for the past eight years as both a cataloguer and a bilingual Spanish storytime presenter. She graduated magna cum laude with two bachelor degrees from a Midwestern liberal arts university and speaks six languages. When not writing, she enjoys reading, gardening and yoga. Marie loves to hear from her readers. To find out more about her smart, sexy, stirring romances, please email her at marie@mariedonovan.com

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