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Nancy Richards-Akers
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Nancy Linda Richards was born in 16 January 1954, the oldest of three children of a New England physician and his wife. She grew up in suburban Scarsdale, New York. In 1971, she graduated at Mount Vernon College. In her early career, she wrote speeches for a North Carolina congressman, and later worked at a firm that produced political ads. In 1976, Nancy met Jeremy Ray Akers, while both were staffers on Capitol Hill. He was a Vietnam War hero, awarded two Purple Hearts and a Silver Star for valor. After being pregnant, Nancy married Jeremy on 11 Agust 1977, in a small ceremony at Georgetown's Christ Church. n 1979, the family moved to Miami, where he worked as an assistant state attorney under Janet Reno. In 1983, they returned to to Washington, where he took a job with the Justice Department handling environmental cases, and she went to work for a time as a receptionist at a political consulting firm. Before came up with writing romances.
Nancy became a member of the Washington chapter of the Romance Writers of America, and she collaborated researching on early novels with Mary Kilchenstein (Mary Kirk), under the pseudonym Mary Alice Kirk. In 1987, she published her first single-handed book, "The Mayfair Season", and began a solid career as romance novelist. In 1997 her last book "Wild Irish Skies" was named one of the top 10 romance novels of that year by The Washington Post. She decided divorced, and moved to live with a friend. One year later, the Saturday 5 June 1999, her future exhusband pulled out a .22-cal. handgun and shot her twice in the back of the head. She died in front of their children.
Full Series List in Order
Related Books
1 - The Lilac Garland (Sep-1989)2 - The Mayfair Season (Nov-1987)
Related Books - 2
1 - Philadelphia Folly (Feb-1988)2 - A Season Abroad (Oct-1988)
Related Books - 3
1 - The Heart and the Heather (Aug-1994)2 - The Heart and the Rose (Sep-1995)
3 - The Heart and the Holly (Jun-1996)
Book List in Order: 14 titles
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The Mayfair Season
- Nov-1987
- / Traditional Regency
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A Season Of Love When Mina first beheld him, her heart stood still. He had fair hair and sky blue eyes, like the heroes of the romantic stories she eagerly read. Alas for our heroine, the handsome Earl of Cavendish had no such thoughts of Mina. Fo...
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Philadelphia Folly
- Feb-1988
- / Traditional Regency
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ALL FOR LOVE... That was Lady Amelia Lytton's notion of nuptial bliss, one that her parents heartily endorsed. Yet her father, determined to quench her penchant for social pranks, dared to arrange a marriage between Amelia and a complete stranger ...
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A Season Abroad
- Oct-1988
- / Traditional Regency
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Jeremy come to London, Emma went to Philadelphia, and Cupid traveled to everywhere!...
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The Lilac Garland
- Sep-1989
- / Traditional Regency
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TOO WELL DID SHE RECALL THEIR KISS.. . At an awkward seventeen, Lady Christina Braughton had been swept off her feet by the darkly dashing Lord Ramsey--only to find that she was the mere butt of a joke. At twenty-three, Tina had blossomed into a v...
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Lady Sarah's Charade
- Mar-1992
- / Traditional Regency
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A CONTRIVED COURTSHIP Lovely Sarah Clement-Brooke wants no part of romance. She prefers, instead, to pursue the ghosts that reputedly haunt her "grace and favour" apartment at Hampton Court--a predilection that makes for diverting evenings, but do...
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The Devil's Wager
- May-1992
- / Traditional Regency
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SHE WAS MARRIED. HE WAS A SCOUNDREL. AND THAT WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING.... Virginia, the lonely wife of a pious and elderly duke, welcomed the freedom a visit with her sister offered. But with the notorious rakehell Harry Davenant, nicknamed Devil D...
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Miss Wickham's Betrothal
- Sep-1992
- / Traditional Regency
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A SCANDALOUS SITUATION Eminently proper Lucy Wickham dearly desires a family-and thus makes her London debut willing to seriously consider the suit of any eligible beau. As good fortune would have it, she is soon betrothed to dashing Anthony Paget...
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The Winchelsea Bride
- Oct-1992
- / Traditional Regency
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In All Hallows' Eve, gifted writers have concocted a Regency witches' cauldron of romance and shadows, love and laughter, horror and delight. Joan Aiken's story conjures a peer's ghost who wreaks destruction on a modern guest-house; lovers invoke ...
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Lord Fortune's Prize
- Jun-1993
- / Traditional Regency
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A LADY'S DREAM Lady Eleanor Villiers swears she'll never accept the indignity of a marriage arranged by her heartless father. Better to dwell in a world of romantic fantasy where someday a handsome stranger will come to her rescue... A LORD'S LOV...
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The Heart and the Heather
- Aug-1994
- / Traditional Regency
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LOVE WILD AND FREE Pledged to one another since childhood when eleven-year-old Malcolm Kirkpatrick married the infant Isobel and vowed to safeguard her life--these two spirited hearts were separated through the years. Malcolm, now a powerful Sc...
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The Heart and the Rose
- Sep-1995
- / Historical Romance
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A DELICATE ROSE The war with the rebel Scots has cost Lady Claricia de Clinton everything she holds dear -- her family, her innocence and her cherished dreams of happiness. She has learned to survive by trusting no man. And now she has become the cap...
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The Heart and the Holly
- Jun-1996
- / Historical Romance
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DIVIDED HEARTS She is Aislinn Clare, darkly beautiful, irresistibly desirable, and wildly independent. Stirred by the blood of her Irish mother, she'd rather die than leave her beloved Ireland and succumb to the proper marriage her English father se...
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Wild Irish Skies
- Jun-1997
- / Historical Romance
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NO OTHER LOVE Annora Picot leads an enviable life. The only child of Dublin's wealthiest wool merchant, the beauty attracts many suitors, but not a gentleman among the lot can make her forget a brief encounter long ago with a wild Irish rogue. His...
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So Wild a Kiss
- Nov-1998
- / Historical Romance
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A RELUCTANT BRIDE Eleanor Archebold will stop at nothing -- even a marriage of convenience -- to keep her family estate from being sold to the highest bidder. And when her young siblings attempt to cast a spell to find her a husband, Eleanor is ast...