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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books
  • First Book:
    October 1984
  • Latest Book:
    December 1992
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About the Author

Sandra Kay Patterson Canfield was born on 21 November 1944 in Longview, Texas, USA. She wrote as Sandra Canfield and under the pseudonym of Karen Keast. She also used the Karen Keast of Sandi Shane in collaboration with the writer Penny Richards (alias Bay Matthews). At 58, Sandra passed away on 23 January 2003 in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Book List in Order: 14 titles



  • Court McAlister is far too commanding for Winter Loring's taste. What's more, he insists on dredging up her miserable past. Worst of all, the divorced Louisiana contractor accuses Winter of having an affair with his teenaged son! Still, against a...



  • Hedonist. Drew Cambridge is everything dedicated veterinarian Kate Hollister doesn't want in a man. The boldly decadent Britisher photographs nudes by clay... and beds them by night. The word "commitment" is utterly foreign to him. Still, when an ...



  • Hearing Cade Sterling's honeyed gravel voice hurls the past at Sarah Braden. Cade ... her ex-husband's brother, who'd been at her side when she needed help most. His hand injured, he now needs her help on his nationally syndicated comic strip. So why...



  • With tattered dreams and a cardboard suitcase, pop singer C.J. Alexander is finally coming home--to Coushatta, Louisiana, to a simpler life ... maybe even to the arms of the only man she ever loved. But single parent Slate Matheson, his pride as broa...



  • Wealthy, elusive, dictatorial-Bristisher Nyles Ryland's reputation precedes him. Though his piratical scowl and blatantly ravishing eyes electrify insurance investigator Lauren Kane, she has no intention of playing this week's lover to Grand Cayman's...



  • Psychologist Charlcv Ware knows her new client, police detective Laud Roberts, is walking a razor's edge of denied emotions. Having sworn to avenge a vicious crime, the virile cop has a chip on his shoulder the size of Mount Rushmore. Worse, he's usi...



  • Thirteen years ago penniless young lovers Brandon Bear Hunter and Morning Skye had pledged themselves to each other, body and soul. Yet Brandon had left to seek his fortune . . . and Skye had wed another. Now a savage twist of fate bound them toge...



  • The bloodied stranger emerged like a shadow from the dark, rainy night, and Elizabeth Jarrett's life began a dizzying dance to a haunting refrain from the distant past.... Exactly one hundred years earlier, to the hour, Elizabeth's great- grandmot...



  • SWEET VENGEANCE Death was too good for the scarred marauder who'd slain Trinity Lee's mother. She would destroy Madison Brecker's railroad first -- drain his lifeblood drop by treacherous drop -- then move in for the kill. After years of bitter ...






  • Cold. Hot. Violent. Gentle. To MIA widow Anne Elise Butler, explosive Captain Kell Chaisson was quicksilver personified. To her horror, her final duty to her husband-a foray into Bangkok's treacherous black market-depended on the troubleshooter's dea...



  • Single, logical, forty-plus Samantha knew what was missing in her life: the patter of little feet. But with adoptive motherhood moments away, she panicked. As always, her best friend, Taylor, offered her his shoulder to lean on. Suddenly, inexplicabl...



  • Rori Kelsey's sultry voice made "Night Spice" the hottest radio show in steamy New Orleans, but her on-air sizzle was a sham compared to her unnaturally chaste existence. And now even her professional success had soured: menacing poison-pen letters w...



  • Lindsey Ellison had a problem. She was in love . . . hopelessly in love . . . with Walker Carr. It would all be so lovely, so idyllic--if only he wasn't her father's business partner and best friend . . . and her godfather! And, of course, Lindsey co...



  • HE WAS BACK Silently, Katy McKellen looked into the rugged face of her husband and felt nothing but rage. Because, not quite a year ago, he'd failed her...left her alone in her greatest hour of need. Quietly, Connor looked back into the passio...


Award-Winning Books by Karen Keast

China Star
1989 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Crossover Romance
Night Spice
1991 Rita Award -- Romantic Suspense
One Lavender Evening
1988 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Series Romance Book of the Year
A Tender Silence
1989 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Romantic Adventure


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Karen Keast has published 14 books.

Karen Keast does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Silence of Angels, was published in December 1992.

The first book by Karen Keast, Suddenly the Magic, was published in October 1984.

No. Karen Keast does not write books in series.