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About the Author.

BRENDA JOYCE is the bestsel ing author of thirty-nine novels and five novel as. She has won many awards, and her debut novel, Innocent Fire, won a Best Western Romance Award. She has also won the highly coveted Best Historical Romance Award for Splendor and two Lifetime Achievement Awards from Romantic Times BOOK reviews. There are more than fourteen mil ion copies of her novels in print and she is published in more than a dozen foreign countries.

A native New Yorker, she now lives in southern Arizona with her son, dogs, and her Arabian and half-Arabian reining horses. Brenda divides her time between her twin passions-writing powerful love stories and competing with her horses at regional and national levels. For more information about Brenda and her upcoming novels, please visit her website: www.brendajoyce.com.

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Avon Books by.

Brenda Joyce.

AFTER INNOCENCE.

BEYOND SCANDAL.

CAPTIVE.

THE FIRES OF PARADISE.

FIRESTORM.

THE GAME.

INNOCENT FIRE.

PROMISE OF THE ROSE.

SCANDALOUS LOVE.

SECRETS.

VIOLET FIRE.

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