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  • Bibliography:
    6 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1978
  • Latest Book:
    June 1984
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About the Author

Laura London is the pen name for the husband and wife writing team Tom and Sharon Curtis. Married more than forty years, Tom and Sharon published ten historical and contemporary romance novels from 1976 to 1986, many of which have come to be regarded as classics in the genre. The Windflower is in numerous top 100 lists of best romances of the twentieth century, including Goodreads, The Romance Reader, All About romance, and Dear Author. Tom and Sharon have been featured on both The Today Show and Good Morning America.

The daughter of a petroleum geologist father and historian and magazine editor mother, Sharon was raised overseas and lived in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, the Canary Islands, Turkey and Iran, and attended high school in London. As an adult, she worked in bookstore management.

Tom attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison and has worked for a public television station as a writer and on-air reporter. He is currently employed as a semi truck driver for a chemical company and plays guitar with a Celtic band that includes a son on bodhran and a daughter on fiddle. Together they have played eighteen years of annual performances at the largest Irish musical festival in the world.

Book List in Order: 6 titles



  • Lovely young Elizabeth Cordell had been well warned about the notorious Lord Nicholas Dearborne. She vowed that never would her handsome guardian add her to his long list of romantic conquests. When shadowy danger on his country estate threatened ...



  • Everybody said that Katie's only chance for survival in wicked London was to become a rich man's mistress. For what respectable man would marry the penniless daughter of a nobleman notorious for his bad debts? And hadn't the handsome Lord...



  • Lovely Lynden Downpatrick raged helplessly, her newfound woman's pride aching. For surely her newly wed husband Justin Melbrooke must believe her an accomplice in the infamous scheme that had made her his wife. Was he not the prize catch of Londo...



  • She was a damsel in distress, rescued by a brash golden-haired stranger she knew only as David. Frances Atherton, a country parson's daughter, had a lot to learn about London's wicked city ways. But nothing, not even David's sinful charms...



  • They were as different as a falcon and a butterfly: he, the subtle, soaring hunter; she, vulnerable and trembling with fear; he, the arrogant, iron-willed Lord Brockhaven; she, the ragged gypsy girl dragged from the woods to be jailed as a poacher, o...



  • SHE LONGED FOR A PIRATE'S KISSES, FOR A GOLDEN ROGUE'S CARESS... Every lady of breeding knows. No one has a good time on a pirate ship. No one, that is, but the pirates. Yet there she was, Merry Wilding - kidnapped in error, taken from a ship boun...




Award-Winning Books by Laura London

The Windflower
1994 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best All-Time Historical Romance


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Laura London has published 6 books.

Laura London does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Windflower, was published in June 1984.

The first book by Laura London, A Heart Too Proud, was published in January 1978.

No. Laura London does not write books in series.