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Danielle Steel
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One of the romance genre's most enduring and prolific authors, Danielle Steel consistently comes through for her fans year after year with intriguing, poignant novels like her latest sizzling bestseller, Bungalow 2.


Nora Roberts
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Nora Roberts is known by many names -- she has written as J. D. Robb, Sarah Hardesty, and Jill March. Whatever name she goes by, Roberts's books -- like her hot summer bestseller, High Noon -- have made hers a household one.


Nicholas Sparks
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Nicholas Sparks is known for his romantic novels that illuminate the joys of love and friendship. In his latest love story, The Choice, Sparks writes about love found, love lost, and the choices we never hope to have to make.


Janet Evanovich
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Over a decade ago, Janet Evanovich tossed aside a career as a romantic novelist in favor of a wacky world populated by thugs, crooks, hookers, and a certain sexy little bounty hunter named Stephanie Plum. Find out more about Evanovich and her leading lady, currently starring in Lean Mean Thirteen.


Iris Johansen
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Though she didn't pick up her author's pen until her children left for college, former flight attendant Iris Johansen has spent the past two decades making up for lost time with daring romantic thrillers like her latest, Killer Dreams.


Sandra Brown
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Already a successful romance novelist in the 1980s, Sandra Brown struck gold when she pushed past the category’s boundaries to take chances with more intricate plotting, richer characters, and surprising plot twists, like the ones in her latest release, Play Dirty.


Mary Higgins Clark
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Mary Higgins Clark has led a life every bit as intriguing as those of the leading ladies in her suspenseful thrillers, as is evident in her memoir, Kitchen Privileges. Learn how Clark's own adventures have bested those in her bestselling novels, like her latest, I Heard That Song Before.


E. Lynn Harris
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Full of passion, fashion, and plenty of drama, E. Lynn Harris's books also addressing issues that go more than mattress-deep. He specializes in African-American characters that are conflicted and fabulous. However, in his most daring work to date, Harris writes the most sizzling story of all -- his own -- in What Becomes of the Brokenhearted: A Memoir.


Judith McNaught
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From her lush historical love stories to her more recent, tautly wound tales of suspense -- Judith McNaught has earned a reputation for shaking up the romance genre with a different kind of heart-pounding prose, evident in her latest novel, Paradise.


Jennifer Crusie
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The Rita-award-winning author of romantic romps that drive her fans wild, Jennifer Crusie is known for her witty, offbeat writing style that puts a sassy spin on the romance genre with novels like her latest, Manhunting.


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