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Catherine Lace was born in 1956. She studied in different all girls schools from there until she left at eighteen. She joined the army, where she served eight years rose to the rank of Staff Captain. In the army, she met and married her husband, but when she fell pregnant, she had to leave the army. With three kids under four and a half, she was invited to help out with a magazine for army wives and she decide to want write. Co-authored with a fellow army wife, she wrote a non-fiction book "Gumboots and Pearls" as Annie Jones. After it, she wrote six Army romance novels as Catherine Jones. Her novel "Praise for Sisters in Arms", shortlisted for the 1999 Romantic Novelists' Association's Award. Now she decided change the type of romance novels as Kate Lace. Her novel "The Chalet Girl" was nominee to Romantic Novel of the Year Award Best.
She was elected the twenty-fourteenth Chairman (2007-2009) of the Romantic Novelists' Association, and she was also the captain of the RNA "University Challenge - The Professionals" team which made it to the final of the 2005 series. Her husband has left the army and their kids have grown up.
Full Series List in Order
Crosby's Cove
1 - Crosby's Cove (Jan-2021)2 - Christmas In Crosby's Cove (Jan-2021)
Little Woodford
1 - Little Woodford (Mar-2018)2 - The Bells of Little Woodford (Jun-2019)
3 - Homes and Hearths in Little Woodford (Jul-2020)
4 - Fates and Fortunes in Little Woodford (Sep-2021)
Book List in Order: 18 titles
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Army Wives
- Oct-1996
- / Contemporary Romance
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When Jenny marries a fellow British Army officer, her life becomes one of upheaval and isolation. After three children and endless travelling, Jenny is beginning to hate being an army wife. In desperation, she strikes out for her own independence and...
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Sisters In Arms
- Jun-1998
- / Contemporary Romance
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Three girls from entirely different backgrounds attend Sandhurst military college. Edwina is bursting with energy, attitude and a Northern outspokenness; Lizzie is kind and tactful - the "right sort"; and Amanda is cool, logical, focused - and deeply...
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Going Solo
- Apr-2000
- / Contemporary Romance
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Kate has almost resigned herself to remaining single for ever. After all, any man willing to take her on, also has to take on an instant family in the form of her adorable baby son. So this dedicated working mother is surprised to find not one but tw...
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A Regimental Affair
- Nov-2003
- / General Fiction
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When Ginny Turner arrives to take up her new post as Regimental Admin Officer, there are mixed feelings on 'the patch'. Her old friend Maddy is delighted: Ginny is fun, good company, and will brighten things up no end. Alice Davies, wife of Commandin...
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A Question of Loyalty
- Sep-2005
- / Romance
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Yvie first meets Adam and Pammy Clifton as neighbours on the same 'patch' in Germany, where she has been posted with soldier husband, Richard. Their friendship is cemented by the shared experience of army life, but is put to the test when the relatio...
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The Eye of the Storm
- Sep-2006
- / General Fiction
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Its June, 1944. In the immediate aftermath of the Normandy Landings, chaos reigns and lives are irrevocably disrupted. At the Ferme de la Source, an isolated farm close to the front line, Martine battles to keep her animals fed, and shelter her Germa...
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Wonder Girls
- Feb-2013
- / General Fiction
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In 1928, Ida Gaze swims the Bristol Channel with the help of her best friend Freda. In 1937, on the instructions of the matron, a nurse at a maternity hospital in London smuggles out an orphaned baby. Now, in Wales, an old lady pieces together these ...
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Oreo Girls
- Nov-2015
- / Historical
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Racism. Bigotry. And an unbreakable bond of love between and old woman and a young girl.Claire Elizabeth Jones, a precocious seven year old, is growing up in small racially-divided Milburn, Arkansas in 1963. Her mom died a year earlier, and her dad, ...
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Little Woodford
- Mar-2018
- / General Fiction
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Little Woodford has a sleepy high street, a weekly market, a weathered old stone church and lovingly tended allotments. A peaceful, unexciting place, the very heart of middle England.
In Little Woodford no one has fingers in more pies than... -
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The Bells of Little Woodford
- Jun-2019
- / Historical Romance
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'Delicious... A cracking story. I absolutely loved it' Emma Lee-Potter.
The market town of Little Woodford seems peaceful and beautiful, with its thriving high street, ancient church and immaculate allotments. But behind this facad... -
Homes and Hearths in Little Woodford
- Jul-2020
- / General Fiction
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Gordon and Maxine's dreams of a blissful life of gardening, pub lunches and quiet retirement in the charming market town of Little Woodford are ruined when three very demanding members of their family come home.
First up is daughter Ab... -
Christmas In Crosby's Cove
- Jan-2021
- / General Fiction
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Book 2 in the Crosby's Cove series (series updated and renumbered in 2023).The small seaside town of Crosby's Cove, Maine, grows quiet after the summer crowds leave but comes alive again in December for the annual Christmas by the Sea extravaganza. L...
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Crosby's Cove
- Jan-2021
- / General Fiction
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Book 1 in the popular Crosby's Cove series (series updated/re-numbered in 2023)Starting over at age 46 wasn't exactly how Annie Powers had envisioned her life.Happily married and living in her dream house in the seaside town of Crosby's Cove, Maine, ...
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The Cottage on Grasshopper Lane
- Sep-2021
- / Contemporary Romance
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They say that life gets easier as you grow older.Stephanie Freeman couldn't agree less.Weeks before her fiftieth birthday her life has fallen apart, and the last thing that she wants to do is go away on vacation. With her soon to be ex-husband still ...
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Fates and Fortunes in Little Woodford
- Sep-2021
- / General Fiction
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Summer is approaching in the market town of Little Woodford, which can only mean one thing: the town fete! But the winds of change are blowing through the sleepy town high street and trouble is on the horizon...
Two hot properties have com... -
The Sound of Flowers
- Jun-2022
- / Contemporary Romance
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A heartwarming, small-town romance about overcoming tragedy and opening your heart to love. Evergreen Falls is the perfect town to be a nobody in. And that's just fine with Everleigh Wright. Being a nobody works out well for her because any...
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The Girls of Summer Cove
- Jul-2022
- / Women's Fiction
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It's only for a week, right?When Mackenzie Walsh left the small town of Summer Cove, Maine, for college in California she had every intention of coming back home. But that was before she met Austin and snagged an internship at her dream company. She'...
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Christmas on Grasshopper Lane
- Dec-2022
- / General Fiction
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Book 4 in the popular Whispering Cove seriesIt's holiday season in Whispering Cove, Maine.Stephanie and her friends have a lot going on, from babies first Christmas to ghosts of the past visiting, there's never a dull moment in Whispering Cove!Laughs...