Kinsale also won best romance novel of 1990 for Prince of Midnight.

Shadowheart won the Romance Writers of America Rita Award for best long historical romance of 2004.

She and her husband divide their time between Santa Fe and Dallas.

Will the hedgehog survive? (Spoiler: Yes, it will.)' Ībout the Author Laura Kinsale is the award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author of The Shadow and the Star, Seize the Fire, The Prince of Midnight, Flowers From the Storm, For My Lady's Heart, and The Dream Hunter. 'Laura Kinsale's work is unfailingly brilliant and beautiful.' -Julia Quinn 'Laura Kinsale delivers powerful, unique romance.' -Amanda Quick 'Magic and beauty flow from Laura Kinsale's pen.' - Romantic Times 'Readers should be enchanted.' - Publishers Weekly 'Laura Kinsale creates magic.' -Lisa Kleypas, New York Times-bestselling author 'I believe that the best word to describe Midsummer Moon is 'adorable, ' and I mean that as a compliment. With her trademark blend of heartwarming characters and a hilarious conflict, Midsummer Moon is yet another winner from the author of Flowers from the Storm, praised by Lisa Kleypas as 'the gold standard in historical romance.' In fact, everything about him is disconcerting in her isolated life Merlin has never met anyone who affects her quite like Ransom does. Now this Ransom Falconer wants her to forget her current interest in flying machines and focus on the speaking box she's lost interest in finishing. And maybe she does take everything people say literally, but people ought to say what they mean. Merlin is not absentminded, it's just that she only seems to be able to pay attention to one thing at a time. Now, if he could just get her mind out of the clouds and convince her to marry him. One of the most ingenious inventors in England, she is also one of the country's greatest hopes in the defense against the power mad Napoleon Bonaparte. She is everything he doesn't like: incapable of following orders, unaware of conventional etiquette, preoccupied, disorganized, and unkempt. Perhaps more shocking, however, are his feelings for the eccentric genius. Sent by the crown to bring both inventor and invention to safety, Ransom Falconer, Duke of Damerell, is shocked to learn Mr.

Merlin Lambourne has invented the 'speaking box'-a sort of telephone-which is so valuable that Napoleon has killed for it. Book Synopsis A duke's well-ordered world is turned upside down when a female inventor sends his heart soaring in this Regency romance by a New York Times-bestselling author.

Midsummer moon by laura kinsale