Needless to say she only had love for the first born child leaving Raven with only the love of her older twin sister. Her father was killed recently and her mother was a very bitter woman set on revenge of the neighboring laird that killed her husband.

The story starts out with the heroines mother giving birth to first her twin sister and then to her. This book contains so many different elements and is not a book for everyone. This was my 3rd time reading this book over the years and I still loved every minute of it. She was also a member of RWA's Long Island chapter, L.I.R.W., and is its easternmost member on the North Fork of Eastern Long Island. And in 2008 she was named by ROMANTIC TIMES along with her friends Jennifer Blake, Roberta Gellis and Janelle Taylor, a Pioneer of Romance.īertrice Small was a member of The Authors Guild, Romance Writers of America, PAN, and PASIC. In 2004 she was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by ROMANTIC TIMES magazine for her contributions to the Historical Romance genre. She had a 'Silver Pen' from Affair De Coeur, and an Honorable Mention from The West Coast Review of Books. She was the recipient of numerous awards including Career Achievement for Historical Romance Best Historical Romance Outstanding Historical Romance Series Career Achievement for Historical Fantasy a Golden Leaf from the New Jersey Romance Writers chapter of Romance Writers of America an Author of the Year (2006) and Big Apple Award from the New York City Romance Writers chapter of RWA, and several Reviewers Choice awards from Romantic Times.

A New York Times bestselling author, she had also appeared on other best-seller lists including Publishers Weekly, USA Today, and the L.A. Published since 1947, Bertrice Small was the author of over 50 romance novels. Her greatest passions were her family Finnegan and Sylvester, the family cats Nicki, the elderly cockatiel who whistles the NY Mets charge call her garden her work, and just life in general. She lived on eastern Long Island for over 30 years. On October 5, 1963, she married George Sumner Small, a photographer and designer with a History Major at Princeton. She studied at Attended Western College for Women and Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School. Bertrice Williams was born on Decemin Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA, the daughter of Doris S.

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