Author Information
Laura Kinsale's Latest Book

Newest Release

  • Bibliography:
    12 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1985
  • Latest Book:
    February 2010
  • Author Rating:
  • Share:
About the Author

Laura Kinsale is a New York Times bestselling author and both winner and multiple nominee for the Best Book of the Year award given by the Romance Writers of America.

She become a romance writer after six years as a geologist--a career which consisted of getting out of bed in the middle of the night and driving hundreds of miles alone across west Texas to sit drilling rigs, wear a hard hat, and attempt to boss around oil-covered males considerably larger than herself. This, she decided, was pushing her luck. So she gave all that up to sit in a chair and stare into space for long periods of time, attempting to figure out What-Happens-Next. She and her husband David currently divide their time between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Texas.

Full Series List in Order

Medieval Hearts

1 - For My Lady's Heart (Dec-1993)
2 - Shadowheart (Mar-2004)

Victorian Hearts

1 - The Hidden Heart (Apr-1986)
2 - The Shadow and the Star (Sep-1991)

Book List in Order: 12 titles



  • THEIRS WAS A LOVE FORGED FROM TARNISHED DREAMS AND HAUNTING SECRETS... Sheridan Drake was a fallen angel... a scoundrel... a blackguard... every maiden's nightmare. Olympia St. Leger was an exiled princess in need of a hero. Amused by her innocenc...



  • HER HEART CHOSE LOVE Tess Collier had spent most of her young life wandering the exotic lands of the world with her father, the Earl of Morrow. But when he died in the Amazon jungle, Tess reluctantly prepared to honour his last wish and return to ...



  • In the splendor of love's passion, only the heart dared dream. LOVE'S SWEET ABANDON He was called the Devil Earl and scorned by gentle society. But to Roderica Delamore, this disreputable Irish rake would make the perfect husband... for a young...



  • LOVE'S MAGIC... Lord Ransome Faloner's mission was to find the inventor whose new discovery could defeat Napoleon's forces. Never did he expect that the genius would be lovely young Merlin Lanbourne, a woman more brilliant that all the King's men......



  • They called him the Prince of Midnight--a legendary highwayman, once dashing and dangerous...now a tarnished, forgotten hero, exiled and alone. She sought his fabled skills in the ruins of a French castle-a proud and desperate English beauty, draw...



  • THE SHADOW Wealthy, powerful and majestically handsome, he is a man of dark secrets--a master of the ancient martial arts of an exotic distant land. Scarred by a childhood of shocking degradation, he has sworn to love chastely... but burns with th...



  • He is London's most notorious rakehell - a charming, irresistible seducer possessing a brilliant mind and reckless passions. Until, in the wake of a shocking tragedy, he is condemned to a world of shadows...and madness. An innocent beauty of modes...



  • The beautiful and mysterious princess came to the young knight's rescue -- and bestowed upon him two precious emeralds. From that day, she was his sworn lady... Though Melanthe had saved the handsome Englishman, she could not save herself. Sh...



  • A man of cool demeanor and stubborn solitude, Lord Winter was a restless wanderer who kept the passions of his heart well hidden. But now, traveling alone in search of a legendary mare known as String of Pearls, he has discovered a far more precious ...






  • His letters began with "My sweet Folly..." Over seven years, the innocent correspondence between Folie Hamilton and her husband's cousin in India, Lieutenant Robert Cambourne, transformed into a secret passion. After Folie's husband died, Robert beca...



  • From Laura Kinsale, the New York Times bestselling author of For My Lady's Heart, comes the novel fans have been waiting for--an extraordinary tale of consuming love and fiery passion between a dashing, dangerous man and the beautiful woman who stand...



  • Trevelyan and Callie are childhood sweethearts with a taste for adventure, until the fateful day her father discovers them embracing in the carriage house and, in a furious frenzy, drives Trevelyan away in disgrace. Nine long, lonely years later...


Award-Winning Books by Laura Kinsale

Flowers from the Storm
1996 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best Romance of All Time
1998 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best Romance of All Time
The Hidden Heart
1986 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- First Historical Romance
The Prince of Midnight
1991 Rita Award -- Best Romance
1991 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Historical Romance
Seize the Fire
1989 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Historical Special Achievement
Shadowheart
2004 All About Romance Reader Award -- Best Medieval
2004 All About Romance Reader Award -- Most Tortured Hero
2005 Rita Award -- Long Historical Romance


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Laura Kinsale has published 12 books.

Laura Kinsale does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Lessons in French, was published in February 2010.

The first book by Laura Kinsale, Seize the Fire, was published in October 1985.

Yes. Laura Kinsale has 2 series.