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  • Bibliography:
    53 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1927
  • Latest Book:
    January 1964
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About the Author

Netta Rachel Hill was born on 1887 in Sevenoaks, Kent, England, UK. She was educated at Kent College, Folkstone, before became teacher of Mathematics. During the World War I, she joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment, and drove an ambulance in France. In 1916, her brother, member of the Imperial Camel Corp, was killed in Egypt. After war, she worked as secretary by Lord George Riddell, 1st Baron Riddell, owerd and Managing Director of the News of the World. In 1925, she married the widower Henry Wallace Muskett (1886-1953), who has three children for his firt marriage, and they had a son, Peter Muskett, who married Judith, and had two children: Sarah-Jane and Jamie. During the World War II, she again served with the V.A.D where she taught handicrafts in British and American hospitals. She died on 29 May 1963 in Putney.

Her debut novel "The Jade Spider", was published in 1927 as Netta Muskett, later she also used the pseudonym of Anne Hill. She wrote more than sixty romance novels, and continued writing until the day of her death in 1963, her last novel called "Cloudbreak", was published posthumously. She was translated to several languages, including: Spanish, Portuguese, Finnish, Swedish and Danish.

Netta Muskett was vice-president of the Romantic Novelists' Association's, that created in her honour the Netta Muskett Award for new writers.

Book List in Order: 53 titles



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  • For seven years Anne Lessways had been bored with her job as a teacher. Then while changing trains when travelling to spend a vacation with her aunt, she met Lady Gillian Haymer, a girl who could have been her double. An audacious scheme was put to A...



  • Their backgrounds were so diferent. They meeting to unlikely. Red-haired waif and titled Englishman--would fate fulfill their dreams of love? He offered her the gift of love. Would she break with the past or deny her heart?...



  • Rakish and devil-may-care Gerald ravaged Isabel's neatly ordered exintence. Isabel knew her marriage would be a testing one, but she hadn't realized what hazards lay ahead... like The Flickering Lamp the pasionate flame of their love almost burnt its...



  • Eve was now so near to him - and yet a whole word away....



  • Karen Hope is trapped in a loveless marriage to a vain, brutal waster. Into her life, unexpected and unsought, came love and happiness. He offered her the gift of love. Would she break with the past or deny her heart?...



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    What happens to a girl when she falls in love with money?...



  • An ambitious and talented pianist, Roland Wade, nonetheless lacks true artistic genius. He is ruthless, single-minded, and can only think of one person: himself. Intent on joining the social elite, Roland will do anything to reach his goal. Even stea...



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  • Her hold on him was fragile - but her need was overwhelming. They came from different worlds, ruled by a past that couldn't be forgotten--a future that couldn't be denied....



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    Mr. Harrow was elderly and sick. His daughter, Felicity, had long since left home and had not returned, despite his yearning to see her gain. Then one day at work Janine, a young typist who had been brought up in an orphanage, came into his life by c...



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    Olive Heriot and Hugh Manning had been in love for years, but marriage had been out of the question because of the intervention of Olive’s mother. Now, at last, she was of age and due to gain her inheritance and be free to choose. A dinner party ha...



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    Deserted by her fiancé and bereaved by a recent pit disaster, Jennifer determines to escape from memories of heartbreak; she accepts Julian Rothe's offer to develop her growing talent as an opera singer. It is not until later that she discovers the ...



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    Alison was a child of the slums, without moral background or heritage. Three men, of diverse character, became part of her life. Colin Yarde is the hero of her childhood and from him she learns much that is good in live; the Rev. William Carris su...



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    Sabine had the hands and imagination of a brilliant surgeon but the heart of a woman. Sabine looked to have a brilliant career as an eye surgeon, but then family debts put paid to all of her hopes and ambitions. She has a lover, younger than herse...



  • Julie and Jeremy are both young and in love with each other, but there the similarity ends. He is ambitious and seeks fame as a playwright, whilst she simply wants a home with him, and a child. Seeing her as a block to achieving his goals, he becomes...



  • In their snow-enchanted world they gave no through for tomorrow. A bride’s dilemma faces Veronica - is she doing the right thing? On the eve of her fashionable wedding she faces suddenly the agonising choice: she must choose between love and title...



  • The story of a marriage on the rocks. He had waited half a lifetime. She had a life of her own. Their love was sudden, savage, and scandalous. He was London's master builder. The homes he designed were planned with integrity and built to last. He ...






  • When the little Parisienne picked him up, she had no idea he was a English curate. The child of a loveless marriage, she seemed doomed to a life of unhappiness....



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    Could they really preserve the public facade of a perfect marriage any longer? Theirs was a perfect marriage; the public agreed on it. Of course it was a pretence but an actress more than most people should know how to deal in illusion, and it was...



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    Kip Delaney, a handsome matinee idol, finds himself in tragic circumstances. His wife is now an invalid and to make matters worse, causes Kip to exist in a living hell. Gail is also unhappily married and quickly falls deeply in love with Kip. They fa...



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    She thought she could control both other people, and her own emotions. Meriel Gray wants to get away for a while. Away from her parents and fiancée. Spoiled, and single minded, she had it all organised. Whatever her parents said, whatever Hugh B...



  • Cilla Partell had been very badly hurt and was accordingly wary of entering into any relationship. She then met Anthony Bereya who seemed to be the very epitome of a person to be avoided. Sought after by others, he was a rich, handsome playboy, but C...



  • Barney Bray is a brilliant young engineer, but ill health forces him to give up his career and take up farming on a very modest scale. He is thinking about marrying the young Constance, but decides to contract a housekeeper. Wealthy Sandra Carson is ...



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  • There had been other men in her life... Susan's first marriage had been a disaster. Swept off her feet by gay, handsome Rex, it was not long before she found out what sort of person he really was. It was a discovery that was to lead to tragic deat...



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    Two sisters, made miserable by the treatment of a puritanical father find, as they fondly believe, freedom in marriage. They find instead bitter disillusion, the one because of her husband's cruelty, the other because of her own wayward and wilful se...



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    She took the identity of a dead girl-and found herself married to a man she could not love....






  • She was used to heartbreak; happiness took her by surprise....



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    Charlotte Durrant decided she did not want to marry William. Now, in a tale reminiscent of many where lost opportunities are wondered about, she is not so sure she made the right decision. Married to George, her lifestyle is very different to what it...



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    A study in infidelity. Yolande Mace has a choice. She had been the object of desire from both men and curiously loved them both. They are, however, very different. Maurice is kind, truthful considerate and steady, and hoping to become a Member of ...



  • A hunger of new love demanded satisfaction. Was she too much of a woman for the man she loved?...



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    Diana is only a young girl when Paul, a French seaman and artist who finds himself trapped in England, admires her from afar as she takes a daily swim. Fascinated by each other they become friends, of a sort. She grows up and then becomes engaged to ...



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    It is a story of a girl brought up between the wars, torn from a safe and happy life and made to face up tomeasure of experience that many do not accomplish in a lifetime....



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    Marian Lacy, widow at forty and owner of a great fortune, feels that her life will begin again when a meets a young....



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    Seven people set off on a safari in an South African Game Reserve. Alone in the heart of Africa, seven people, seek desperately to solve their individual personal problems by escaping from the outside world. Until joining the party they were all unkn...



  • Rachel had to escape, get away to a new life, a new country. She was leaving behind so much misery. Once she had been happy living out in the country with her father and sister. Then her father brought them home a visitor: the woman who was to be ...



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    Philippa’s hopes and dreams of a happy marriage were dashed almost immediately after her marriage to Lord Hollmere. She felt humiliated and empty as she realised the passion she sought was not to be. Then Fergus entered her life and she enjoyed man...






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    When Dr Ian Jordan fell in love with her, it seemed to Valborg Maitland that the unhappiness of her past was gone for ever. Then one foolish escapade robbed her of everything. Alone and penniless she had to face up to life away from her country. Then...



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    A tender romantic story of love and sacrifice. The outspoken and passionate story of a diffcult marriage. Griff Mallow flouts convention to marry Melanie Lind. But fate leads Griff back to the arms of a woman who once knew him more than well. Will...



  • She loved the man her mother once had. Helena Clurey seemed to have all that life could possible offer; a devoted husband, sufficient money and a family in which she could take pride. She is happy and secure, but suddenly her secure world and pres...



  • When Verne Raydon marries Robert, it is purely for money and he knows it. Verne despises him, yet takes the step that appals her, but she has no choice. In this loveless arrangement Robert, who is not unattractive, must have his own motives, but what...



  • Sir Blaine Belding was highly respected and liked by his friends and medical colleagues alike. Then Virginia Coley came into his life. He was totally captivated and whilst she was from a world very different from his, he nonetheless made her his wife...



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    A story of love for which Nora gave up all she had... As a young and inexperienced girl Nora du Cayne had given up everything for love. She had to learn to adapt herself to life in the Latin Quarter of Paris. She had endured a tempestuous relatio...



  • First love can bring ecstasy and pain, sometimes also disillusion. To Gail Redding, her first love brought all three and for a time it seemed as if she would never be able to throw off the shackles of her past. Eventually she decided to leave England...



  • Flames of revolt in a tropical colony highlight a human drama of love, jealousy and intrigue. A story about a young colonial police officer on 1955 in Sierra Leone, West Africa....



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    Her fate was to destroy those she loved... Myrna Fermand attempts to make up for her own loveless childhood by becoming over-protective and defensive when it comes to her own family. The fence which Myrna erects around her garden is of iron, and h...



  • Her heart rending choice: her love, or her career in medicine. Beautiful, rich and pampered, Romaine Manning's only interest had been her cherished career in medicine. But suddenly the love of two men turns her world upside down. It is, on the fac...






  • She played one man off against the other - until suddenly if seemed as if she would be left with neither......



  • He wanted her to pose as his fiancée - for seven dramatic days which changed the course of her life... Philip wants to marry Eve Brayle. It is her way out - he is rich, not too old, and has been in love for years - and he has even secretly funded...



  • This is the story of Deborah Matson and her tragic succession of ill fated loves. Deborah’s passions hit new heights after meeting Brian Hayne. She is totally in love with him and he arouses in her feelings the existence of which she had previou...



  • Once burnt, twice shy - could she even trust a man again? When Carla Dane is jilted virtually at the altar, her world crashes around her. Petulant and proud, she vows to marry the first man she meets in order to save face. But she never guesses fo...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Netta Muskett has published 53 books.

Netta Muskett does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Cloudbreak, was published in January 1964.

The first book by Netta Muskett, The Jade Spider, was published in January 1927.

No. Netta Muskett does not write books in series.