She once spent the night on a mountain waiting to learn of the fate of coal miners trapped in a mine collapse. She was on the scene when a power plant construction accident in a small town left 52 men dead. In West Virginia, she covered both natural and manmade disasters. Her years as a broadcast journalist were spent in two radically different areas of the country: Nebraska and West Virginia. Victoria credits much of her writing success to her experiences as a reporter. In 2008 she was the keynote speaker for the Romance Writers of American annual conference in San Francisco. In 2009 she was given a Career Achievement Award from RT Bookclub and was named Historical Storyteller of the year in 2003.

With books translated into more than a dozen different languages she has readers around the world and has twice been nominated for Romance's Writers of America prestigious RITA award. Sixteen of her books are bestsellers hitting the New York Times, USA Today and/or Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. The Perfect Wife-originally published in 1996 and reissued in March 2008-hit #1 on the New York Times list. Since the publication of her first book in 1995, she has written thirty-one full length novels and six novellas.

She turned to writing full time and is still shocked it worked out. New York Times bestselling author Victoria Alexander was an award winning television reporter until she discovered fiction was much more fun than real life.

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Now he has only two months to convince her to be his wife in full… before his mysterious secret is revealed and their lives explode irrevocably into scandal. Though the inheritance is more than and tempting, Richard knows the lady herself is the real prize and isn't about to allow Gillian to deny the burning fervor that sparks between them. Topping her list of eligible candidates is the honorable Earl of Shelbrooke, yet one look at the very handsome but enigmatic nobleman and Gillian knows that cajoling him into a marriage of convenience will be hardly convenient at all.įar from immune to Gillian's entrancing charms, the last thing Richard Shelton is about to bind himself into is a chaste marriage. To claim her uncle's unexpected bequest she must marry by her next birthday, which leaves only two months to find a malleable mate. Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780380806317Īgainst her better judgment, Lady Gillian Marley needs to find herself a husband-and quickly.

I Broke My Trunk! by Mo Willems