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Robyn Donald


New Zealand (b.1940)

Robyn was born on 1940 in Northland, New Zealand, she was the oldest in herfamily, and as a child she thrilled her four sisters and one brother withbloodcurdling adventure tales, usually very like the latest book she'dborrowed from the library.

Robyn owes her writing career to two illnesses. The first was a younger sister's flu. She was living with her husband and her and spent most of thatwinter acquiring, suffering, and recovering from various infections. One dayshe croaked that she had read everything on Robyn's bookshelves, so wouldShe please buy her something cheerful and sustaining. Robyn found threepaperbacks one Mills and Boon Modern Romance novel and a couple of otherromances. Robyn read them, too, of course, and so enjoyed them she spent thenext couple of years hunting down more Mills and Boon books. This was muchmore difficult then than it is today, so she decided to write her own, andfor the following busy 10 years She wrote and hoped that one day She'dfinish a manuscript good enough to send off.

The second illness was her husband's, and it was bad a heart attack. He wasso young it terrified them all. While he was recovering he suggested thatRobyn finish the manuscript She was writing and send it off. It wasn't aperfect manuscript, but the doctor had said to humour him, so She finishedit, edited it as best She could, and sent it off. Three months later, Shewas astounded to read a letter from the editor saying that if She made a fewrevisions they would buy her novel Bride at Whangatapu.

Published since 1977, Robyn sees her readers as intelligent women who insiston accurate backgrounds, so she spends time researching as well as writing.Robyn Donald sometimes thinks that writing is much like gardening. It's asimilar process creating landscapes for the mind and emotions from the seedsof ideas and dreams and images. Both activities can also lead to moments ofextreme delight, moments of total despair, and backache.Now Robyn is living in the Bay Islands. She continues writing, and also findstime for a very supportive husband, two adult children and their partners, agranddaughter and her mother, not to mention the member of the family thatkeeps her fit, a loud, cheerful, and ruthlessly determined "almost" Labradordog.
 

Genres: Romance
 
Series
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Love's Reward
   1. Love's Reward (1989)
   2. A Bitter Homecoming (1989)
   3. Some Kind of Madness (1991)
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Pagan Surrender
   1. Pagan Surrender (1993)
   2. Paradise Lost (1993)
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Dacre
   1. Tiger Eyes (1994)
   2. Surrender to Seduction (1998)
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Marriage Maker
   1. The Mirror Bride (1996)
   2. Meant to Marry (1996)
   3. The Final Proposal (1996)
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Royal Weddings
   1. His Pregnant Princess (2004)
   2. By Royal Command (2004)
   3. By Royal Demand (2006)
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Novels
   Bride at Whangatapu (1977)
   Summer at Awakopu (1978)
   Dilemma in Paradise (1978)
   Shadow of the Past (1979)
   Wife in Exchange (1979)
   Bay of Stars (1980)
   Iceberg (1980)
   The Interloper (1981)
   The Dark Abyss (1981)
   An Old Passion (1982)
   Mansion for My Love (1982)
   The Guarded Heart (1983)
   Return to Yesterday (1983)
   The Gates of Rangitatau (1983)
   A Durable Fire (1984)
     aka Durable Line
   An Unbreakable Bond (1986)
   A Willing Surrender (1986)
   Country of the Heart (1987)
   A Late Loving (1987)
   Smoke in the Wind (1987)
   The Sweetest Trap (1988)
   A Matter of Will (1989)
   No Guarantees (1990)
   The Darker Side of Paradise (1990)
   A Summer Storm (1990)
   No Place Too Far (1990)
   Storm Over Paradise (1991)
   Once Bitten, Twice Shy (1992)
   Island Enchantment (1993)
   Element of Risk (1994)
   Tiger, Tiger (1997)
   A Forbidden Desire (1997)
   Forbidden Pleasure (1998)
   The Paternity Affair (1999)
   A Reluctant Mistress (1999)
   Sanchia's Secret (2000)
   The Devil's Bargain (2001)
   One Night at Parenga (2002)
   The Rich Man's Blackmailed Mistress (2009)
   The Virgin and His Majesty (2009)
   The Far Side of Paradise (2011)
   Island of Secrets (2013)
   Claimed By Her Billionaire Protector (2018)
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Collections
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Series contributed to
Year Down Under
   3. The Golden Mask (1992)
   8. The Stone Princess (1991)
   12. Such Dark Magic (1993)
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Passion
   A Ruthless Passion (2001)
   Forgotten Sins (2001)
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His Virgin Mistress
   1. Billionaire, Inexperienced Mistress (2004)
     aka Ruthless The Billionaire's Passion
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