Denise Robins

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Denise Robins
  • Bibliography:
    182 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1924
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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About the Author

Born Denise Naomi Klein on 1 February 1897 in London, England. Daughter of Herman Klein, a musical composer, and Kathleen Clarice Groom, a gothic novelist, after their divorce she had a unhappy childhood. In 1918, she married Arthur Robins, a corn broker on the Baltic Exchange, they had three daughters; Eve Louise, Patricia (aka Claire Lorrimer), also a romance novelist, and Anne Eleanor. She divorced in 1938, after she met O'Neill Pearson in Egypt, whom she married in 1939.

Denise worked as a journalist for the D. C. Thomson Press, then became a freelance writer. She published gothic romance novels under her first married name, and under the pseudonyms of Denise Chesterton, Hervey Hamilton, Francesca Wright, Ashley French, Harriet Gray, and Julia Kane. In 1960, she co-founded the "Romantic Novelists' Association", and she was its first president until 1966. She died on 1 May 1985 in England.

Full Series List in Order

Fauna Trilogy

1 - Gold for the Gay Masters (Jan-1954)
2 - Bride of Doom = Bride of Violence (Jan-1956)
3 - The Flame and the Frost (Jan-1957)

Book List in Order: 182 titles

  • Sealed Lips // Illusion of Love

    In June 1918, Stella Morris learned of her sister Pamela's secret wedding to Lord Julian Eden. But only days later, Julian's fighter plane was shot down and he was reported missing, presumed dead. A year later, Pamela is married for a second time, al...

  • The Marriage Bond

    Beautiful, rich and impulsive, Gay Northiam's life is a fun filled whirl of dinners and dances. Captivated by her vivacious charm and exquisite looks, a flock of eligible and handsome suitors leave her with few blank pages in her engagement diary Dic...

  • The Triumph of the Rat // Gilded Cage

    Pierre Boucheron, or 'The Rat' an infamous former underworld leader, is now living the high life as the darling of glamorous Parisian high society. Casually cruel, he leaves a score of lovelorn women behind, until he meets Madeleine, the young Counte...

  • The Inevitable End

    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Billie Carden is one of the new breed of women: tomboyish and defiantly independent, she has no use for men and no desire to marry. Nor does she need to - for she is the lucky heiress to the fortune of her American uncle Silas. But Billie's life take...

  • Jonquil

    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Jonquil's secluded life as the heiress to the Rivers millions was no preparation for Roland Charter's seductive line, who has been described as 'the most fascinating man in London'. Only when she had married him did she discover that his dominating p...

  • Desire Is Blind = Bride of Revenge

    After her aunt's death, Thea gladly gives up her dreary job in the suburbs to travel to the island of Biscany. She is sure she will be looked after there by handsome Bevil Royce, with whom she had had such as passionate love affair during his stay in...

  • The Passionate Flame

    • / Contemporary Romance
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    When Peril Grant went to Rhodesia to live with her only remaining relative, Amy Johnson, a permanent invalid, she had visions of it as a golden land of rolling plains, the finest countryside in the world. The heart-break, passion and tragedy that ...

  • White Jade

    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Patricia Moreland has always longed to go China, to experience at first hand the exotic, mysterious Orient. When her old friend Sheila Mason suggests that she accompany her on a trip to Shang Tao, Pat is delighted. Little does she suspect what China ...

  • Women Who Seek

    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Women are seekers after love. The Eve of this book is no exception, but when she finds she is only passing amusement to the man she loves, she marries a young Doctor on the rebound. Boredom follows. Then comes the gay tempestuous Nicholas, and Eve fa...



  • The Enchantress

    Marion Grayle is in love! Overwhelmingly, totally in love. Wild and elemental as her native Dartmoor, with her flaming red-gold hair, challenging dark eyes and the supple allurement of her figure, she has always stood apart from the locals: like a cr...

  • The Enduring Flame

    Denise Robins - 39

    Inside his log cabin, in the Great White Wilderness, young Joanna Grey's father dies, and she's forced to flee from the lecherous Conrad Owen into the icy wilderness. Lost and exhausted, she's found by Richard Strange and they shelter in a cabin wher...

  • The Dark Death

    • / Contemporary Romance
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  • Heavy Clay

    Philippa's error is to give of herself too generously. The man she gives herself to as wife proves disastrously unequal to the passion she lavishes on him. He feels stifled by it, and after only three years of marriage his thoughts tun to the idea o...

  • Love Was a Jest

    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Scharlie was pushed into marriage by her mother when she was only eighteen. For four years, her middle-aged husband restricted her social life - so much so that, within hours of her first escape, she had fallen passionately in love with handsome, sua...

  • And All Because

    Was Gerry too rich -too spoiled- for a good man love? Young and beautiful, Geraldine Wayne was terribly wealthy and accustomed to having everything her own way. Nicholas Hulme was serious, determined, a man who worked for every penny he made, and who...

  • Heat Wave

    Philippa had come out to Malaya five years ago, full of ideals, to marry George March. And for five years they have been ‘happily married’ - Philippa would never ‘fool around’ like the other bored planters’ wives in Khota. In the club, whe...

  • It Wasn't Love

    Lois had been warned about shipboard romances, but felt herself quite immune as she set out to visit her brother in Singapore. But Philip Sanpell seemed to be something quite different. His stunning good looks and passionate kisses made her throw ca...

  • Swing of Youth

    Denise Robins - 15

    Robin Frayne has been brought up after her parent’s death by her sister and her husband but is very much a poor relation. She lives a boring, stultifying existence in the country, and when she attempts to leave her sisters ill health makes her feel...

  • One Night in Ceylon and Others

    A captivating love story from the 100-million-copy bestselling Queen of Romance, first published in 1931 and now available for the first time in eBook....



  • The Wild Bird

    Denise Robins - 25

    Could an unbelievable legacy replace her lost love? "Guy, darling." Whispered the girl in his arms. "I adore you. It's wonderful-to think we don't have to hide it from Elizabeth anymore. Kiss me!"...

  • Crowns, Pounds, and Guineas

    • / Contemporary Romance
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  • Fever of Love

    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Verona meets Stephen in Paris as a fellow student, he is the most brilliant young artist in London, and she loves him madly. His portrait of her is magnificent, capturing her large, lustrous eyes and creamy skin. Though their love is true, Verona ref...

  • Lovers of Janine

    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Janine is a professional dancer - admired, adored, envied. And life in Monte Carlo should have been glamorous and exciting. But though outwardly radiant, Janine is desperately unhappy. She suspects her lover, the fascinating Nikko, of infidelities wi...

  • Second Best

    • / Contemporary Romance
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    When Barry Elderton comes back from Ceylon to marry Virginia Brame, it is to find her the wife of the wealthy Sir Ian Kingleigh. So Barry turns to Virginia's cousin Joan for consolation. But she, loving Barry as much as he loved Virginia, knows that ...

  • There Are Limits // For the Sake of Love

    Carol leads a charmed life, adored by all who know her, but her glamorous, carefree world shatters around her when her fiancé is reported killed. Yet once jolted from her grief by a confession which questions Maurice's fidelity, she abruptly flings ...

  • Blaze of Love

    • / Contemporary Romance
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    When Sonia Gayle travels by sea to meet Harry, her fiance, in the Belgian Congo, she turns her back on Revel Dacre, the most fascinating man on board. She soon discovers that Dacre is Harry's employer and one of the most influential men in the countr...

  • The Boundary Line

    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Eager to escape the heat of London in July, Terry Manstone is a vivacious young girl indulging her passion for Sussex's country in a hiking tour - only to find herself lost, with darkness and a storm approaching. Hoping to make it to the next village...

  • Men Are Only Human

    • / Contemporary Romance
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    It seemed that Beechy had everything she could ever want - a loving family, an adoring fiance, Gil, and a beautiful old Tudor house that would soon be her home. But Gil had a secret: a tempestuous infatuation he had once had in Paris with the attract...

  • The Secret Hour

    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Just a week before her marriage to Gordon Veriland, Evelyn meets and falls in love with Shane Cargill. But Evelyn is trapped, for Gordon has the power to put her father in prison for fraud. She knows that the wedding must take place.But Evelyn's marr...



  • Shatter the Sky

    Denise Robins - 11

    Karey Marsden is bereft with grief after losing both her fiance and her father within a short time of each other. Comforted by her father's friend, Dr Ralph Chesney, she accepts his proposal of marriage, even though she does not love him. The man sh...

  • Strange Rapture

    Denise Robins - 16

    Springtime in Venice, romantic, enchanted city of dreams where anything can happen. Sara is too young, too full of love and life to want the magic to pass her by. She would give anything to be out there by the glittering water, floating in a gondola ...

  • Gay Defeat

    Denise Robins - 22

    Life had always smiled sweetly on Delia Beringham. As well as being disarmingly lovely, she is the only daughter of a wealthy financier who indulged her every whim. Naturally Delia assumes that her indulgent father will eventually allow her to marry ...

  • Life's a Game

    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Lexa Harvey's winter sports holiday in the Swiss Alps is all she had hoped for: crisp mountain air, the trill of skiing, and the company of her devoted fiancé, detective Connal Douglas.But Lexa had reckoned without the disconcerting presence of the ...

  • Brief Ecstasy

    Denise Robins - 7

    The pretty young Rosemary takes a job in Spain. The train journey to Malaga seems to cast a magic spell over her. For those few brief hours she knew a passionate, ecstasy with handsome Paul. But on meeting Mercedes, the girl to whom she is to be comp...

  • Never Give All

    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Pat is a lovely girl who learns after the honeymoon that only experience can teach a woman never to give all - to a man. Also that there is a limit to the time a girl can love a faithless and irresponsible husband. The exotic holiday in Torremolinos ...

  • Slave-Woman

    • / Contemporary Romance
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    She struggles to free herself from the bondage of a tyrant husband who treats her as a slave and a persecuting mother-in-law. Jan wanted to be more than just another possession to a man whose cruelty and indifference had long since taken over from...

  • Sweet Love

    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Enchanting Tanya Massison is the toast of Bohemian Chelsea.An artists' model and exquisite dancer, she is vivacious, alluring - and a breaker of men's hearts. Life is for living, and Tanya lives every minute to the full, without a care in the world.A...

  • Life and Love

    Francesca, the golden voice of London's nightlife was at the height of her career, destined for stardom and breathlessly in love with her composer-partner Fane, when disaster struck. When Francesca lost her voice, Fane dropped her, and she was sudden...

  • Climb to the Stars

    Denise Robins - 10

    An arduous journey to exotic lands has turned into a nightmare for Jane Daunt. As the "poor" relation, Jane serves as a private secretary to her uncle and companion to her beautiful spoiled cousin. Jane watches the whims of her cousin Sonia have a de...



  • All This for Love

    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Though cousins, Sally Browning and Philippa Frome are identical - in looks but not in character. When the spoilt Philippa persuades her identical 'twin' to pretend to be Mrs Frome so Philippa can run off on holiday with her scret lover, Sally can onl...

  • How Great the Price

    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Kitty is a bride of a few months, alone in New York while her husband Jack Farleton is on business in Chicago. But a dreadful fire sweeps through her hotel, leaving twenty-one dead - Kitty seemingly among them. Grief-stricken, Jack returns to London,...

  • Murder in Mayfair

    • / Contemporary Romance
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    There is only one thing in the world that they brilliant young musician, Jacques Clavel, wants; to marry his beautiful English sweetheart Mary Lessington. But his hopes are shattered and his heart broken when, against her will, Mary is forced to marr...

  • Were I Thy Bride // Betrayal

    Up until now, young Nicola Horten had always done what was expected of her. She had grown up in the suburbs, gone to school, and taken a job. But then the unexpected happened. Nicola is completely bewitched by the well-known novelist, Laurence Gray -...

  • Those Who Love

    Denise Robins - 6

    She fell in love but learned too late thar it was not worth it! "Tell Auburn... I... loved him so!" -- These last words from a dying girl still haunted Dr. Noel Frensham; still made him bitter. The voyage back from India had been a memorable on...

  • Love Game

    • / Contemporary Romance
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  • Family Holiday

    The poignant story of a woman who is forced to pay the ultimate price for love. The summer for Clare, Guy Tardy and the children brought the holiday - just like every other year. It also brings that chance meeting with Blake Randall, the young off...

  • Kiss of Youth

    A young girl discovers the love of a lifetime -- and the cruelty of fate. When Judy Grant's car broke down in the country, miles from anywhere, a handsome man, who called himself "Dickon" came to her aid. He gave her a ride back to town, she fell in ...

  • Set Me Free

    Victoria longs for romance, but is stifled by her mother and sister. She escapes to Paris and a loveless marriage, and begins to understand, possibly too late, what true love is all about....

  • The Tiger in Men

    Fenella Shaw leaves England to start a new life on a Canadian cattle ranch, bequeathed to her by the father she hasn't seen since childhood. Understandably, she relies for help and advice on Max Geerling, the ranch-manager. So it comes as no surprise...



  • The Woman's Side of It

    When the beautiful Caroline married wealthy Godfrey Langdon she thought her dreams had come true. But those dreams soon became nightmares. Torn between the hatred of her stepdaughter and her love for Jon, Godfrey's secretary, she is above all torment...

  • Restless Heart

    Julia Daunt was married to a good man, and desperately in love with someone else! The conflict between reason and emotion when restless youth is forced to choose between romantic love and unromantic security....

  • Since We Love

    Her life's only love engaged to another - and tragedy sealed the bond! Joan Parwood was manageress of the Great Friars Hotel, she could have been happy working at popular riverside hotel owned by wealthy Sally Vaugham. But Sally is engaged to marr...

  • You Have Chosen

    Denise Robins - 4

    Toni tried to boy love, but she didn't know the price would be so high... Toni Kenyon was young and pretty and passionately fond of all that life had to offer, but at this particular moment it seemed to offer nothing but unhappiness. For her best fr...

  • Dear Loyalty

    Twenty-one-year-old Lucie Bryant had worked as personal secretary to Edgar Lorrimer at the Near-East Petroleum Company for two years since the death of her father. Her boss was a kindly gentleman who held Lucie in great affection - unlike his dashing...

  • I, Too, Have Loved

    Anna was trapped in an unhappy marriage with Major Francis Rivington, when she met Gary Forrester, a brilliant young engineer. Suddenly Cairo became an enchanted playground, and Anna found happiness. But she would need all her courage to leave her hu...

  • Officer's Wife

    A story of the experiences of Wanda in adjusting herself to English army life when she went to Cairo as the bride of a young subaltern. A poignant story of love and jealousy against an army background....

  • Gypsy Lover // Romany Lover // Chain of Love

    Denise Robins - 1

    Beloved--or pawn in a game of revenge? Impoverished family of kind hearted Rina Morrison browbeat her into acceoting a proposal of marriage to Lionel Quest, heir to a fantastic castle. She resigned herself to a loveless--though wealthy-- existence...

  • Dust of Dreams

    Once a man had loved and betrayed her... now she desperately yearned for the love of his closest friend. It began on her father's Singapore plantation. There destiny brought the lovely Signa Manton face to face with the two men - Ivor and Blake - wh...

  • Island of Flowers

    Lovely Judy Railton had gambled her future on a newspaper ad, and was blissfully intoxicated with the result. She had sailed to Hawaii to marry a man she'd never seen, British expatriate Peter Delmer....

  • Winged Love

    Torn by war, torn by love... From war-darkened London to the lush countryside of southern France during World War II, a pilot is caught in a conflict of passion versus duty. Neir Richardson, an R.A.F. flight lieutenant, fought side-by-side with the F...

  • Sweet Sorrow // Forget That I Remember

    Fate throws them together - a disastrous flood, an isolated stone house, a handsome and successful surgeon, and a lovely young girl. When doctor Guy Denver sees a car plunging into floodwater, he manages to rescue the unconscious occupant and take he...

  • To Love Is to Live

    Denise Robins - 34

    Her husband ordered her into her arms of another man! Gail Partner had married handsome Bill Cardew because he was and old family friend and a soldier going to the front. But in Edinburgh, the ghost of her first love reappears in the guise of a la...

  • Little We Know

    • / Contemporary Romance
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    A captivating love story from the 100-million-copy bestselling Queen of Romance, first published in 1940 and now available for the first time in eBook....

  • Love Is Enough

    A dream come true? It certainly seems so to the beautiful Fleur Lorraine. She had been working forthe film department of a movie studio; mostly office work and minor production jobs. It had always been Fleur's ambition to act, and when the female sta...

  • Set the Stars Alight

    A thrilling and torrid novel of espionage and romance set agains the sultry, exotic and primitive Gold Coast of Africa. When the motion picture that blonde Gay Burnett was making went bankrupt, the beautiful English actress was stranded -and easy ...

  • What Matters Most

  • If This Be Destiny

    • / Contemporary Romance
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    A captivating love story from the 100-million-copy bestselling Queen of Romance, first published in 1941, and available now for the first time in eBook....

  • This One Night

    A young girl finds glamour, adventure, and the romance of her dreams - but fate threatens her love and her life! The one consuming passion of lovely Tona Felton's life has been to travel and forget the monotony of her life as a City typist in Lond...

  • War Marriage // Let Me Love

    A haunting story of the loneliness of war. "War Marriage" reedited as "Let Me Love"....

  • Escape to Love

    Storm Castle - home of the Trevarwiths - on the wild Cornish coast. A bride and bridegroom driving up to the doors... a white-faced child peering from a turret window... the first dread meeting between the bride and her red-haired vixen of a step-mot...

  • This Spring of Love

    As a land girl in the war she could be strong. As a woman in love, it was not so easy! Christine Shaw, an orphan with high romantic ideals, agrees to aid Fiona in her elopement, but soon she finds her position as an imposter a nefarious one. Here ...

  • The Changing Years

    Denise Robins - 28

    Could she survive the pain of loving? On the cruise to exotic Gibraltar, where Prudence Wayne hoped to marry Philip Gorman, she met the cynical Vyvian Chard. Though Vyvian recently inherited a Spanish castle, his good fortune did nothing to change...

  • Daughter Knows Best

    • / Contemporary Romance
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  • War Changes Everything

    • / Contemporary Romance
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  • Give Me Back My Heart

    Betrothed against her will to someone she could never love, she ardently desired the one man she was forbidden to see. When wealthy, self-willed Fiona Rutherfield meets handsome Bill Lindsey one fateful Scottish spring day, she little suspects tha...

  • Never Look Back

    When Brett Morgan, the man she loved broke off their affair and walked out on her, Penny Winn thought that her broken heart would never recover. But the Second World War takes her to the Mediterranean where she burying her grief in her work. She meet...

  • How to Forget

    • / Contemporary Romance
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    When Helen Verne went to Switzerland for a holiday, she little dreamed of the intricacies of love in which she soon found herself plunged. And yet when she first saw Simon Boyd, he was kissing another woman, Petal Philipson - and he was married......

  • Desert Rapture

    Alexandra Forbes is a young and beautiful English girl working for the British government in exotic, wartime Cairo. She decides to take a holiday in the magical old city of Damascus an exotic setting worthy of the Arabian Nights. But she has no idea ...

  • Love so Young

    • / Contemporary Romance
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    A captivating love story from the 100-million-copy bestselling Queen of Romance, first published in 1945, and available now for the first time in eBook....

  • Figs in Frost

    Lucia had married young, yielding more to her parents urgings than the dictates of her heart. As the years went by, she grew to despise her brutish, egotistical husband-finding contentment only in raising her two young daughters. Then suddenly, Lucia...

  • Greater Than All

    Pruedence Layne is young, beautiful and talented. Though Prue may love the charming and valiant soldier, Christopher Harland, whom she has nursed back to life after front-line combat in the Second World War, she cannot resist a long-coveted posing ab...

  • The Story of Veronica

    Veronica and Charles Hallard are an ideally happy young married couple living in Lagos where Charles has his job. When the gathering war-clouds in 1939 force Charles to sent Veronica to England ahead of him. But six months later he doesn't arrive as ...

  • All for You

    Denise Robins - 38

    A young woman's heartbreaking decision! It had been one of those short wartime engagements. The wedding gifts were still unwrapped and the wedding cake was yet to be cut when Finella's young husband Darley Martington was recalled by his regiment a...

  • Separation

    • / Contemporary Romance
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  • More Than Love

    Rosalinda Browne's life was a simple one - a secretarial job with a respected London firm, a plain furnished room, and an occasional evening alone at the opera or the symphony. Then a chance meeting brought her face to face with Richard Corrington-As...

  • Forgive Me, My Love

    • / Contemporary Romance
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  • Could I Forget

    For years, Richard Cliffe had been the medical doctor of Harristown, at Yorkshire moors. When newly qualified Philip March set himself up as a rival, Cliffe hoped his own patients would reject the young medical doctor's newfangled theories. But, he w...

  • Khamsin

    Story of passion, heartbreak, and the haunting beauty that is Egypt. Young Phillida joins Rex Maltern, her soldier husband, at his posting by the Suez Canal Zone. It soon becomes evident that this new environment of oppressive heat, depression, ru...

  • Love Me No More!

    In the shadows of the Pyramids, she discovers ecstasy, torment... and the fierce desires of a foreign prince. Iris has lived an idyllic, sheltered life - born and raised in the "Little Palace: - her family home in exotic Egypt. But when her wealthy ...

  • The Feast is Finished // The Lonely Heart

    Verona had met Stephen Best in Paris as a fellow student, he was the most brilliant young artist in London, and she loved him madly. His portrait of her was magnificent, capturing her large, lustrous eyes and creamy skin. Though their love was true, ...

  • The Hard Way

    A captivating love story from the 100-million-copy bestselling Queen of Romance, first published in 1949, and available now for the first time in eBook....

  • The Uncertain Heart

    Linda come home from her secretarial job in Frankfurt eager to see Grant again. Linda quietly hoped that her absence abroad would awaken tender feelings in Grant. In the past they had shared many happy times and now she would be with him again. But w...

  • To Love Again

    Harlequin Romance - 629

    When the man she was about to marry died just before the wedding, Helen felt that her life had fallen apart, and that her world was shrouded with the ghost of her dead lover. It is six months since the death of her fiancé Christopher, but Helen stil...

  • Love Hath an Island // The Cyprus Love Affair

    Denise Robins - 24

    Pretty young Lucie Gresham, a secretary at the British Embassy in Cairo, was desperately anxious to visit the beautiful island of Cyprus, and she did so taking a job as companion to the mother of rich shipping magnate Adrian Ollivent. Lucie finds the...

  • The Madness of Love

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    A feather-light novel about the wonderful madness of love....

  • Only My Dreams

    It seemed to young Ming Corally born in Shanghai and raised in London, that her simple day to day existence was less than live, and now her fortunes had plunged anew. Half drowned and desperate after leaping into a river to escape an assailant, Ming ...

  • Second Marriage

    Katherine Green dreads telling her children of her plans to marry Robert Tracy. But even she never expected that they would respond with such bitterness. They do not realise how lonely she has been, nor do they see the cruelty of their own bitter res...

  • Something to Love

    Beautiful young nurse Christie Paige goes to the clinic of the small suffering victims of the Second World War, set high in the Austrian Alps to work at the side of atractive Dr. Phillip Vereker, the man she plans to marry. The clinic is runing by Dr...

  • Heart of Paris

    Nineteen year old beautiful Annabel Graye is suddenly left penniless in Paris when financial disaster overtakes her rich father. Fortunately, she is offered a job at the world's most famous couturier, Maison Christophe. Then she'd caught the eye ...

  • Infatuation

    Denise Robins - 8

    Marriage to a stranger? Pretty Nicola Boyd thought she was the luckiest girl in the world, she had everything a young woman could possibly ask for. She had beauty, charm - and she was a intelligent and capable business woman with a successful career...

  • The Other Love

    Briony Moore is jilted just days before her marriage when her fiance decides his new job abroad is more important than she is. Seeking solace and oblivion in work, she becomes secretary to Hew Vanner, the explorer and writer. In the idyllic surroundi...

  • Strange Meeting

    Denise Robins - 26

    When Clare Farramond goes to the historic home of Sir Stephen Finch-Boyes, there to act as a tutor to his young daughter, Isabel, it is with sadness in her heart. For still alive within her is the memory of Michael - the man who had been her whole wo...

  • The First Long Kiss

    Gemma Grantham and Bette Dickens decide to have a really luxurious holiday and pool their joint savings, they had seen pictures just like this in glamour magazines, smart sun brown girls in chic clothes in the south of France. Longing for romance the...

  • My True Love

    Lovely, orphaned Lyn Taylor feared the fabulous whirl of the sophisticated London social season would pass her by. As secretary to her wealthy, snobbish Aunt Diana, she was the carefully hidden Cinderella as the list of eligible bachelors - men of mo...

  • Once Is Enough

    Sylvia Penhurst is forced to bear the burden of her unhappy marriage, her ardent temperament subdued by her husband's cold unfeeling behavour. Then suddenly, to her yearning, caged heart comes love, love of the kind her husband cannot, will not give...

  • The Loves of Lucrezia // Lucrezia

    The wickedest woman who ever loved. Sensual... corrupt... that was the court of Renaissance Italy, and that, too, was Lucrezia Borgia. Born into a world of unparalleled depravity, Lucrezia learned early the corrupt practices of her dissolute family. ...

  • The Bitter Core

    When beautiful Venetia Sellingham got married for the second time they all said it wouldn’t work. For young huntsman Mike Petheric, though handsome and virile, was twelve years her junior. But Venetia didn’t care and neither did Maybelle, her fif...

  • The Long Shadow

    When Violet Wellingham woke up that morning and realized that she had lost not only the husband she adored, but everything else that had made life worth living, she found it quite impossible to believe that she was not still in the middle of a nightm...

  • Two Loves

    Bill Carew was handsome, tender and exciting, but Cherry knew she couldn't live on love alone. Phillip Bellairs didn't attract her as Bill did, but his wealth could buy Cherry everything she'd always wanted. Cherry was determined to have them both. C...

  • Unshaken Loyalty

    When the aristocratic Farrington family advertised for a cook-housekeeper they didn't expect an applicant as young, pretty and efficient as Helen Maye. She becomes intrigued by her new employers, especially their half-brother Johnny, who has been a s...

  • Venetian Rhapsody

    Twenty years of age, Katherine Shaw arrives in Venice, to be governess for the Marchesa Voccheroni's daughter. For Katherine, it was a fairy tale come true - Venice is the most romantic city in the world. From a quiet English upbringing, Katherine su...

  • Gold for the Gay Masters

    Fauna Trilogy - 1

    Fauna is an exquisitely beautiful quadroon, in her veins mingled the blood of noble African chiefs and fiery Irish poets. Sold into cruel slavery in the West Indies, she is rescued by Lord Pumphret, a noted English dandy of the Georgian period. But F...

  • Bitter-Sweet

    Exquisite young Raine was sent to stay with her grandmother at villa in the South of France to recover from a reckless infatuation for Clifford Culver, a handsome philander. It all seemed so perfect -- the excitement of Cannes, the glittering blue Me...

  • When a Woman Loves

    Sandra was the kind of girl men found irresistible. Hugh Lancaster, the famous artist for whom she posed, deserted his wife and was driven to suicide. Michael Hunt, the only man she had ever loved, married her and risked ruining both their lives beca...

  • Meet Me in Monte Carlo

    • / Contemporary Romance
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    The boulevards of Paris, Cannes, Monte Carlo --perhaps in their glamour Sylvia could forget Johnny. . . forget that he no longer wanted to marry her. But Sylvia didn't know when she left London that she was about to be plunged into a ring of jewel th...

  • The Breaking Point

    Beautiful Christa came to Queen's Lacey, a Buckinghamshire farm, as a young bride. Deeply in love with her husband Anthony Chalford, who adored her, but who is saddy dominated by his mother. Julia, her cold mother-in-law, soon makes it clear that she...

  • Enchanted Island

    Young Nicole has lived all her life on an island off the south coast of France and loves her beautiful Mediterranean island paradise - but her quiet world is sahattered when Paul Quest arrives. For she not only finds him devasting but he has composed...

  • Bride of Doom = Bride of Violence

    Fauna Trilogy - 2

    Fauna, the beautiful quarter-caste slave-girl, had a daughter Fleur Roddney comes to the fore. As alluring and fatally captivating as her mother, Fleur 's life would never be a life of ease... This is Fleur's story. The story of an arranged marriage ...

  • All That Matters

    Denise Robins - 19

    Would she be a wife or a handicap? Wealth and social standing meant little to Glynis. Her aim in life was domestic: a husband and a quiet home, somewhere away from it all. But Steven Grant-Tally didn't fit into this image. He was handsome, clever, r...

  • The Seagull's Cry

    A tempestuous love story set in one of the wildest corners of Cornwall. Tansy Trehearn was born and bred in the beautiful and little Cornish port of the village St. Ruthyn, where Martin Wyde was opening a small hotel, The Seagull's Cry. Tansy was fa...

  • The Flame and the Frost

    Fauna Trilogy - 3

    Readers of "Gold for the Gay Masters" and "Bride of Doom" will need no recommendation to "The Flame and the Frost", which follows the fortunes of the third-generation, the orphan Charlotte Goff. After narrowly avoiding being run down by her coach, Ch...

  • The Noble One

    Denise Robins - 20

    Dana was beautiful as the unspoiled countryside she loved so much. Having grown up in the rugged countryside of the Lake District, she found herself filled with a deep affection for the animals that roamed among the hills, especially the majestic sta...

  • The Untrodden Snow

    Denise Robins - 3

    Rowan is a young orphan, who during her flight to Switzerland to start a new life coincides with the arrival of Ashley Moore, fresh from the success of a brilliant new musical show in London. Ashley is working on another musical in a chalet near the ...

  • Chateau of Flowers

    Denise Robins - 36

    In keeping with her father's dying wish, Laura went to live at the family chateau in France. But the happiness she'd hoped for eluded her...and instead, she was mistreated by her own relatives. Ordered about by her aunts, envied by an indulged cousin...

  • Dance in the Dust

    Seduction, betrayal, rapture. Lord Esmond Walhurst, fitht Earl of Mornbury and the handsomest man in all England, had renounced his elegantly reckless lifestyle - only to be shattered by a cruel tragedy. Grief-stricken, he resumed his dissolute livin...

  • We Two Together

    Juliet was nearly eighteen. Almost a woman. She was very rich. Her mother and half-sister were slim and attractive, but Juliet was rather plump. Her mother's attempts to find her a husband had failed, and Juliet was miserable. Juliet lived in her ow...

  • Three Kisses

    in Light the Candles

    A captivating collection from the 100-million-copy bestselling Queen of Romance, first published in 1959, and available now for the first time in eBook.A collection of twelve of Denise Robins most unforgettable stories....

  • Do Not Go, My Love

    Denise Robins - 29

    Pretty Christina was deliriously happy. She was to marry the man of her dreams, the fabulously handsome and wealthy Vincent Gayland. In spite of Lady Gayland's hostility towards her son's fiancée, the wedding duly took place. The young couple were r...

  • Black Fan

    in Light the Candles
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    A captivating collection from the 100-million-copy bestselling Queen of Romance, first published in 1959, and available now for the first time in eBook.A collection of twelve of Denise Robins most unforgettable stories....

  • A Family Affair

    in Light the Candles
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    A captivating collection from the 100-million-copy bestselling Queen of Romance, first published in 1959, and available now for the first time in eBook.A collection of twelve of Denise Robins most unforgettable stories....

  • Honeymoon Hotel

    in Light the Candles
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    A captivating collection from the 100-million-copy bestselling Queen of Romance, first published in 1959, and available now for the first time in eBook.A collection of twelve of Denise Robins most unforgettable stories....

  • Instinct

    in Light the Candles
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    A captivating collection from the 100-million-copy bestselling Queen of Romance, first published in 1959, and available now for the first time in eBook.A collection of twelve of Denise Robins most unforgettable stories....

  • Interlude

    in Light the Candles
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    A captivating collection from the 100-million-copy bestselling Queen of Romance, first published in 1959, and available now for the first time in eBook.A collection of twelve of Denise Robins most unforgettable stories....

  • It Might Have Been

    in Light the Candles
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    A captivating collection from the 100-million-copy bestselling Queen of Romance, first published in 1959, and available now for the first time in eBook.A collection of twelve of Denise Robins most unforgettable stories....

  • Light the Candles

    in Light the Candles
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Twelve tales of the heart by veteran author Denise Robins: Who is the attractive stranger who knocks on the Cornells' door one snowy Christmas Eve? Lucy discovers the answers to a tragic family secret - and finds lifelong romance. Charlotte and Bil...

  • Love Matters Most

    in Light the Candles
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    A captivating collection from the 100-million-copy bestselling Queen of Romance, first published in 1959, and available now for the first time in eBook.A collection of twelve of Denise Robins most unforgettable stories....

  • The Loveliest Lady

    in Light the Candles
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    A captivating collection from the 100-million-copy bestselling Queen of Romance, first published in 1959, and available now for the first time in eBook.A collection of twelve of Denise Robins most unforgettable stories....

  • Some Are Born Wives...

    in Light the Candles
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    A captivating collection from the 100-million-copy bestselling Queen of Romance, first published in 1959, and available now for the first time in eBook.A collection of twelve of Denise Robins most unforgettable stories....

  • Thanks for the Memory

    in Light the Candles
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    A captivating collection from the 100-million-copy bestselling Queen of Romance, first published in 1959, and available now for the first time in eBook.A collection of twelve of Denise Robins most unforgettable stories....

  • The Unlit Fire

    Denise Robins - 9

    Andra Lee is a promising young actress and her film career seems guaranteed. But her fiancé, Trevor Goodwin determined that their future together lies in Cape Town, has other plans. She had fulfilled herself as an actress but never as a woman. She i...

  • Arrow in the Heart

    Denise Robins - 14

    Following a summer romance in Brighton, young Lucie Reed falls passionately in love with handsome Nat Randall. Lucie is desperate to be anew with Nat and takes a job as a matron at boy's private Kenwood Hall School, where he is a master of History an...

  • I Should Have Known

    Shy Shelley Bray was a young teacher from London, who was appointed governess of the two young children by Esmond Torrington in Monte Carlo. She thought that she would be in complete charge of the children during their father's absence, until she...

  • My Lady Destiny

    Her dying mother christened her Destiny, and the lovely, lonely orphan grows up a drudge in a poor parsonage. Until she is fifteen, she has no idea that she is the daughter of Lord Claud, the Earl of Destermere. Then, from his deathbed in Switzerland...

  • A Promise Is For Ever // A Promise Is Forever

    Denise Robins - 17

    Fern is a girl of high principles and such people are born to be tested. When Fern's allowance from her father suddenly stops, she and Terrence Barrett, her feckless husband, are forced by circumstances to take employment as cook-housekeeper and chau...

  • Put Back the Clock

    It's a dream come true. For years Tracy Shaw has kept secret her love for childhood friend Sebastian Lemaire. Tracy was a fine girl and delicate beauty, but she was the village doctor's daughter, and Sebastian was already a very wealth young man, daz...

  • Dark, Secret Love

    The spider in the cup. After eleven years of marriage, Christina faces the facts - she has left her husband and children and is nearing the day of her divorce. As she recalls the factors that led to her break-up with Charles and her passionate new...

  • Nightingale's Song

    It all happened too fast... Celia's long lost father appeared and announced that he was a millionaire. Now, in his last days, he wanted to share his life, and his wealth with his only kin - his daughter. Celia was taken from her drab London flat to ...

  • Mad Is the Heart

    Denise Robins - 13

    Heiresses twice over, Viola and her young sister Giselle, traveled to exotic Khartoum to be with their guardian, the sophisticated rock-steady Lionel. But Viola's excitement was spoiled by her sister's obvious infatuation with Lionel -- and the prese...

  • Reputation

    Denise Robins - 21

    Lucinda was happy and deeply in love, but 'old sins have long shadows', and on the very night of her engagement party the dark, dangerous shadow of her past confronted her. Her wonderful engagement party went sour very quickly--at the sight of her fi...

  • Moment of Love

    She was just his private secretary - would he ever know how mach she loved him? Christa Coombe might have thought herself lucky. She spent every working day with Stephen Harrimay - the brilliant young executive - the man she adored. But Christa was o...

  • The Sin Was Mine

    His meeting with the neurotic model-girl Candy Day spells danger for the marriage of Christopher Fairfax. His beautiful and devoted wife Rose is already getting too involved in her own interior decorating career. The seeds of tragedy were already lur...

  • The World of Romance

    Stories by various authors....

  • Time Runs Out

    A captivating love story from the 100-million-copy bestselling Queen of Romance, first published in 1965, and available now for the first time in eBook. This brilliant novel by Denise Robins is a warm, human story of mother-love in a framework of ter...

  • Loving and Giving

    Denise Robins - 30

    Friday's child is loving and giving. Juliet had devoted her life to the care of crippled and deprived children. But when she left London to work in the South of France, the phrase was to take on a deeper meaning. For Julia's new life was to bring her...

  • The Strong Heart

    Denise Robins - 32

    When Rose Bennett meets Cliff Patterson at a party it's love at first sight for both of them. Within weeks they are engaged and Rose is blissfully happy. Cliff has to return to South Africa, but he promises to send for her as soon as possible. As she...

  • O Love! O Fire!

    Was Rupert right? Should Candy Kavell give in to his demands? The attraction between them had now grown into a throbbing, scorching flame of desire. She could no longer be satisfied with just those passionate, disturbing kisses. And Rupert was a man....

  • The Crash

    Denise Robins - 12

    When both her father and mother pass away within a few months of each other, vivacious pert Clem Wright suddenly finds herself all alone in the world without a real friend to turn to. She takes a job, becoming personal assistant to the brilliant oste...

  • Lightning Strikes Twice

    Denise Robins - 33

    While in Rome, young Cressida fell madly in love with Dominic, a handsome carefree artist. Though she knew his reputation, she thought their love affair would be different--right up until the day he disappeared. Now she had Sam, a kind man who offere...

  • Wait for Tomorrow

    Until the moment Charlotte discovered the letters hidden behind the broken mirror, nothing really extraordinary had ever happened to her. She was, she always throught, an attractive, secure , happy young girl with no doubts about her place in the wor...

  • House of the Seventh Cross // House by the Watch Tower

    Denise Robins - 23

    A dramatic story of love and intrigue set in the glamorous sun of Majorca. In Palma on vacation, Rosamund Lowe accepted a lift from a stranger named Rune le Motte and was involved in a smash-up. After the auto accident, a fragile blond girl regain...

  • The Price of Folly

    All because of twenty-four hours in Paris, and an innocent mistake. Rich, handsome, sophisticated Alan Rivers sweeps Paula off her feet. His charming declarations of love and his fervent promises of marriage throw her into a sweet delirium of unreaso...

  • Laurence, My Love // Lawrence My Love

    Denise Robins - 2

    After twelve years within the confines of a Belgian convent, Vere Rowland returns to England--to the magnificent Halbertson estate where her mother is housekeeper. On the return trip Vere meets darkly handsome Laurence Braeknell, it was as pleasant a...

  • Love and Desire and Hate

    Denise Robins - 5

    Fran and Rodney Gifford's marriage is drifting slowly but surely towards the rocks since the death of their baby daughter. Their disagreements - once settled with love and understanding-are flaring into mayor quarrels. And their sensitive schoolboy s...

  • A Love Like Ours

    Denise Robins - 18

    A fleeting moment--is that all she meant to Prince Dominic of Montracine? Catherine Leigh-Holmes was just someone who danced one dance in his arms, just one of the many girls he'd known. Or had he lost himself in the sea of her deep green eyes She on...

  • Under the Sky

    • / Contemporary Romance
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    It was a routine flight bound for Africa but the passengers were destined never to arrive. Hijacked at gunpoint, the pilot is forced to land in the desert where, in the blistering heat and with remote chance of rescue, the passengers face imminent de...

  • She-Devil // Jezebel

    Pagan Princess Jezebel's reception into Samaria was hailed as one of the wonders of the ancient world. Drenched in the exotic colours of the East, the spectacle of King Ahab's bride and her triumphant progress to the Ivory Palace was never to be forg...

  • Sweet Cassandra

    Denise Robins - 27

    Would he ever marry her? Cassandra's happy homelife vanished with her mother's remarriage to a man Cass called the "General." He was an overbearing tyrant, used to his own way, who considered Cass a nuisance. Yet he did not hesitate to pass judgeme...

  • Forbidden

    Denise Robins - 35

    Two young lovers seeking the atmosphere of peace and tranquillity they were never able to find in London emerge from a car in a sunlit Provençal town square. It is an idyllic setting for a passionately romantic interlude, but the dazzling light and ...

  • The Snow Must Return

    Denise Robins - 31

    The English Steve, goes to work to a Swiss ski resort, where she meets the also English Greville Chesney, an handsome millionaire. Then, pretty young Dana Chesney, the Greville's only daughter, is injured in a ski accident and she may never walk agai...

  • None but He

    None But He by Patricia Robins. When Mandy's boyfriend dies in a motorbike accident, she is left alone with a young child and little money. It seems a perfect solution to Mandy's twin problems of finance and loneliness when her son's uncle Jon off...

  • The Other Side of Love

    Denise Robins - 40

    Even after several years of marriage Renira is still very much in love with her husband Desmond Curtis. Her marriage was everything Nira had ever wanted, she has a husband who adored her, two lovely children and a beautiful home. But suddenly her hus...

  • Twice Have I Loved

    Etta Hughes has been jilted by her fiancé, Rod. Bewildered and stricken, she decides to take a job as cook to the Trenders. In their beautiful house on the river perhaps her heart will mend. Mark Trender was handsome. intelligent, a gentleman. What'...

  • Dark Corridor

    Corisande Gilroy was engaged to the most wonderful man in the world - her handsome, debonair Martin Ashley - and now they planned to share a few days' holiday in Madeira at the end of Martin's present business trip. Corrie longed for the day when sh...

  • Australian Opal Safari

  • Come Back, Yesterday

    Half Russian, with all the deep seated passion of that people, Tamara Whitfield thinks herself very much in love with Paul Pryce. Paul with his attractive mocking smile, has captured her heart and for her, it has been no casual affair. But Paul, a st...

  • Fauna

    WHICH IS SWEETER--TENDER, YEARNED-FOR LOVE, OR REVENGE THAT HAS WAITED A LIFETIME? In her veins mingled the blood of noble African chiefs and fiery Irish poets. Sold into cruel slavery, beaten by a harsh mistress, she escaped into a dazzling world...

  • Love

  • Love's Triumph

  • Masquerade of Love

  • La Vie En Rose

    Heiresses twice over, Viola and her young sister Giselle travel to exotic Khartoum to be with their guardian, the sophisticated Lionel. However, Viola's excitement is spoiled by her sister's obvious infatuation with Lionel - and the presence of Ted, ...

  • Moment of Truth

    • / Contemporary Romance
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  • To Love Is to Die

    • / Contemporary Romance
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Denise Robins has published 182 books.

Denise Robins does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, La Vie En Rose, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Denise Robins, Sealed Lips // Illusion of Love, was published in January 1924.

Yes. Denise Robins has 1 series.
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