Barbara Dawson Smith

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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1985
  • Latest Book:
    June 2006
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About the Author

Shortly after graduating from Michigan State University with a degree in journalism, Barbara Dawson Smith sold her first historical romance novel only two weeks after sending it to a publisher. She is a member of Romance Writers of America since 1981. Her books have won the Golden Heart Award from RWA, and Best Historical Romantic Suspense and Best Regency Historical from Romantic Times. She has been a finalist for the National Readers’ Choice Award, Romance of the Year by Affaire de Coeur magazine, the Golden Quill, and the Booksellers' Best Award. She has also been a five-time finalist for the prestigious RITA Award, and realized a lifetime dream in 2002 when she won the award for TEMPT ME TWICE.

Barbara now lives in Houston, Texas in a cozy cottage with a loving husband, and two wonderful daughters who still come back whenever they want a home-cooked meal. Surrounded by pets and who knows how many neighbor children running up and down the stairs. When she's not finishing a chapter or teaching a seminar on writing, she enjoys browsing in her collection of over a thousand research books.

Full Series List in Order

Defiant Fletcher

1 - Defiant Embrace (Jul-1985)
2 - Defiant Surrender (Jan-1987)

Fire Coleridge

1 - Fire on the Wind (Mar-1992)
2 - Fire at Midnight (Sep-1992)

Kenyon Family / The Rosebuds

1 - Romancing the Rogue (Sep-2000)
2 - Tempt Me Twice (Sep-2001)
3 - With All My Heart (Sep-2002)
4 - One Wild Night (Sep-2003)
5 - The Wedding Night (Apr-2004)

Related Books - 2

1 - Her Secret Affair (May-1998)
2 - Beauty and the Brute (Dec-1998)

Book List in Order: 24 titles

  • No Regrets

    Mills & Boon Special Edition - 246
    Silhouette Special Edition - 246

    Eyes of dark amber. A mocking smile. An infinitely arousing kiss. Her youthful heart given freely, then shattered. All of this Allison forced herself not to regret. Regret was for those afraid of living, and she was doing just fine. Then Matt Wake...

  • Defiant Embrace

    Defiant Fletcher - 1

    THE FLAME IN HIS TOUCH When the bold sea captain bought her in a tavern auction, raven-haired Mirella knew she had traded one terror for another. Instead of a roomful of hooting sailors, she was now alone with a handsome stranger who intended the ve...

  • Defiant Surrender

    Defiant Fletcher - 2

    He taught her the meaning of love and passion! AGE-OLD ENEMIES Elise d'Evereaux was horrified when she spilled wine on the pants of the tall, handsome stranger -- and even more shocked when the bold Englishman made her clean it up. She had no...

  • Stolen Heart

    The Avon Romance

    FIRE AND ICE It was an act of vengeance, but Chad McClintock finally knew how to get even with his father. He'd seduce the young copper-haired beauty who was about to become his stepmother! Kristy Donovan was nothing but a fortune hunter anyway, a...

  • Silver Splendor

    Elizabeth Hastings seethed with fury. Lord Nicholas Ware had the effrontery to call her wanton... then try to seduce her himself. No man, no matter how handsome and powerful, should dare such an outrage. Yet no man had ever touched her as profoundly ...

  • Dreamspinner

    THE HEART OF A SCOUNDREL... Dark scandal haunted Kent Deverell, the moody and enigmatic Duke of Radcliffe. His young wife had met an untimely and tragic end, spawning rumors of foul play among the local gossip-mongers. But young Juliet Carleton wa...

  • Candle in the Snow

    in Avon Presents: Christmas Romance

    An English schoolteacher faces the holiday return of her long-lost, devilishly handsome husband......

  • Fire on the Wind

    Fire Coleridge - 1

    The flames of revolution sweep relentlessly through India, threatening the life of free-thinking Sarah Faulkner. Fleeing the impending holocaust, the sheltered Victorian beauty is irresistibly drawn to Damien Coleridge, the renegade son of an English...

  • Fire at Midnight

    Fire Coleridge - 2

    The sensational murder of a distinguished jeweler rocks London society -- and dashing Lord Kit Coleridge is suspected of the black deed. Determined to clear his name, the handsome half-caste aristocrat must first inform ravishing Norah Rutherford of ...



  • A Glimpse of Heaven

    He can see into her past... He can see into her secrets... He can see into the deepest desires of her heart... Only in his dreams has Burke Grisham, the once-dissolute Earl of Thornwald, seen a lady as exquisite as Catherine Snow. Now, standing be...

  • Never A Lady

    HAUNTED BY HER SISTER'S MEMORY... A vision brought traveling preacher's daughter Mary Sheppard to the wicked city of London--she saw the image of her runaway identical twin Josephine, bloodstained and begging for help. But Josephine has vani...

  • Once Upon a Scandal

    Her Husband, Her Enemy Desperate and alone, Lady Emma tricked Lucas Coulter, the Marquess of Wortham, into a hasty marriage. But on their wedding night, when he learned the truth about his not-so-innocent bride, he abandoned her. Seven years la...

  • Her Secret Affair

    Related Books - 2 - 1

    She was an innocent in a world of scandal The only child of a notorious madam, Isabel Darling will risk anything to find the man who murdered her mother--even if it means blackmailing her way into the exalted world of London society. Even if it me...

  • Beauty and the Brute

    in Scandalous Weddings
    Related Books - 2 - 2

    You're invited to four unforgettable weddings - each with a scandal that would make a bride blush! In this delightfully wicked collection, four bestselling authors depict weddings at their most scandalous - and tying the knot has never been so ou...

  • Too Wicked to Love

    He is Ethan Sinclair, the Earl of Chasebourne, the most notorious rogue in all of England. She is Miss Jane Mayhew, the keen-witted spinster Ethan had never even noticed. But when Jane discovers his love child abandoned on her doorstep, she is determ...

  • Seduced by a Scoundrel

    Society shunned the base-born rogue. Matrons whispered behind their fans about his sensual exploits. Young ladies secretly dreamed of his intimate touch. No one expected Drake Wilder to force his way into the closed ranks of the nobility by coercing ...

  • Romancing the Rogue

    Kenyon Family / The Rosebuds - 1

    When Michael Kenyon, the Marquess of Stokeford, finds his grandmother having her palm read by a gypsy beauty, he's convinced that Vivien Thorne is a fortune hunter. The Marquess is determined to expose her as a fraud-and Vivien is equally determined ...

  • Tempt Me Twice

    Kenyon Family / The Rosebuds - 2

    Temptation was just the beginning... A rogue shrouded in mystery, Lord Gabriel Kenyon returns from abroad to find himself guardian of Kate Talisford, the girl he had betrayed four years earlier. Now sworn to protect her, he fights his attraction t...

  • With All My Heart

    Kenyon Family / The Rosebuds - 3

    A DARING DECEPTION... The piercing shot came out of nowhere. Stunned to see his dueling opponent fall, Lord Joshua Kenyon is even more shocked to discover that his injured foe is a beautiful woman in disguise. But who was that cloaked man fleeing ...



  • One Wild Night

    Kenyon Family / The Rosebuds - 4

    I have always taken pride in my bad reputation. Polite society viewed me as depraved and utterly dissolute, for I was a disciple of passion. Pleasure was my hallmark, women my pastime. That is, before the incomparable Lady Charlotte Quinton disrupted...

  • The Wedding Night

    Kenyon Family / The Rosebuds - 5

    Dear Diary, Four years have passed since the utter humiliation of my wedding night. But it seems like just yesterday that my husband left me--before consummating our marriage. So why, then, do I still harbor feelings for the selfish cad I once adore...

  • The Duchess Diaries

    What she wrote might hide a secret... What he reads will cause a scandal... RITA Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Barbara Dawson Smith enthralls readers once again with the tale of a rogue who traveled all over the world--and. ...

  • Countess Confidential

    Dear Reader, This is the story of how I, a penniless upstart, became a countess. I never set out to be the heroine in a romantic tale of derring-do. As a spinster of five-and-twenty, I was much too practical to imagine myself tracking a dangero...

  • The Rogue Report

    Dear Reader, I have a secret. Several, in fact... Most people know me only as the headmistress of a charity school. Having a son but no husband has made me a social outcast, which is no great inconvenience since I despise Society, especially th...

Award-Winning Books by Barbara Dawson Smith

Dreamspinner
1990 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Historical Romantic Suspense
A Glimpse of Heaven
1996 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Regency Historical Romance
Tempt Me Twice
2002 Rita Award -- Short Historical Romance


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Barbara Dawson Smith has published 24 books.

Barbara Dawson Smith does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Rogue Report, was published in June 2006.

The first book by Barbara Dawson Smith, No Regrets, was published in June 1985.

Yes. Barbara Dawson Smith has 4 series.
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