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Charlotte Lamb

Sheila Ann Mary Coates was born on 22 December 1937 in Dagenham, Essex, England. She worked as a typist-secretary at the Bank of England and as a junior researcher for the BBC. In 1959, she married Richard Holland, then a Fleet Street journalist, later a sub-editor of The Times and a classical biographer. She wrote her first book in three days with three children underfoot! In between raising her five children (including a set of twins), she wrote several more novels. She used both her married and maiden names, Sheila Holland and Sheila Coates, before her first novel as Charlotte Lamb, Follow a Stranger, was published by Mills & Boon in 1973. She also used the pennames: Sheila Lancaster, Victoria Wolf and Laura Hardy. A prolific author, Sheila penned more than 160 novels, most of them for Mills & Boon. Since 1977, Sheila had been living as a tax exile on the Isle of Man, where she died suddenly on 8 October 2000 in her baronial-style home 'Crogga'.

Full Series List in Order

Barbary Wharf (Genre: Contemporary Category Romance)

1 - Besieged (Oct-1992)
2 - Battle for Possession (Nov-1992)
3 - Too Close for Comfort (Dec-1992)
4 - Playing Hard to Get (Jan-1993)
5 - A Sweet Addiction (Feb-1993)
6 - Surrender (Mar-1993)

Enemies and Lovers (Genre: Contemporary Category Romance)

1 - Disturbing Stranger (Jan-1979)
2 - The Long Surrender (Mar-1979)
3 - Forbidden Fire (Jul-1979)
4 - Possession (Nov-1979)
5 - A Frozen Fire (Sep-1980)
6 - The Cruel Flame (Oct-1980)
7 - Stranger in the Night (Mar-1981)
8 - A Secret Intimacy (Jan-1984)
9 - Infatuation (Jun-1984)
10 - For Adults Only (Feb-1985)
11 - Man Hunt (Oct-1985)
12 - Explosive Meeting (Jul-1986)
13 - Heat of the Night (Apr-1987)
14 - Love in the Dark (Jun-1987)
15 - Hide and Seek (Aug-1987)
16 - Circle of Fate (Nov-1987)
17 - Kiss of Fire (Jan-1988)
18 - Echo of Passion (Jun-1988)
19 - Out of Control (Sep-1988)
20 - The Threat of Love (Feb-1992)
21 - Heart on Fire (Jun-1992)
22 - Forbidden Fruit (Sep-1993)
23 - Lovestruck (Feb-1998)
24 - Treasons of the Heart (Jan-1999)
25 - Hot Surrender (Aug-1999)

Pure Emotion (Genre: Contemporary Category Romance)

1 - Temptation (Sep-1979)
2 - Frustration (Feb-1980)
3 - Fever (Apr-1980)
4 - Sensation (Jun-1980)
5 - Obsession (Nov-1980)
6 - Compulsion (Apr-1981)
7 - Seduction (May-1981)
8 - Abduction (Jun-1981)
9 - Retribution (Jul-1981)
10 - Illusion (Aug-1981)
11 - Crescendo (Sep-1981)
12 - Heartbreaker (Oct-1981)
13 - Dangerous (Nov-1981)
14 - Desire (Dec-1981)
15 - Betrayal (Apr-1983)
16 - Haunted (Nov-1983)
17 - A Violation (Nov-1983)
18 - Infatuation (Jun-1984)
19 - Scandalous (Oct-1984)
20 - Love Games (Mar-1985)
21 - Desperation (Sep-1989)
22 - Dreaming (Jan-1994)

Sins (Genre: Contemporary Category Romance)

1 - Secret Obsession (Jun-1996)
2 - Deadly Rivals (Jul-1996)
3 - Haunted Dreams (Aug-1996)
4 - Wild Hunger (Sep-1996)
5 - Dark Fever (Oct-1996)
6 - Angry Desire (Nov-1996)
7 - Hot Blood (Dec-1996)

Yesterday (Genre: Contemporary Category Romance)

1 - Follow a Stranger (Oct-1973)
2 - A Family Affair (Aug-1974)
3 - Hawk in a Blue Sky (May-1978)
4 - Beware of the Stranger (Jun-1978)
5 - Master of Comus (Jul-1978)
6 - Call Back Yesterday (Sep-1978)
7 - Duel of Desire (Oct-1979)
8 - Night Music (Jan-1981)
9 - Man's World (Feb-1981)
10 - Heartbreaker (Oct-1981)
11 - Kingfisher Morning (Jun-1985)
12 - The Heron Quest (Dec-1986)
13 - You Can Love a Stranger (Dec-1988)
14 - No More Lonely Nights (May-1989)
15 - Falling in Love (Aug-1994)
16 - Guilty Love (Dec-1994)
17 - Body and Soul (Apr-1995)

Multi-Author Series List

Expecting!

12 - The Yuletide Child (Dec-1999)

Forbidden!

The Marriage War (Oct-1997)

Man Talk

An Excellent Wife? (Apr-1998)

Nine to Five

8 - The Seduction Business (Feb-2000)

Books in Order: 123 titles

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Charlotte Lamb has published 123 books.

Charlotte Lamb does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Boss's Virgin, was published in November 2001.

The first book by Charlotte Lamb, Follow a Stranger, was published in October 1973.

Yes. Charlotte Lamb has 5 series.