Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Reader Letters

  • THE BEAUTY Reader Letter

    Dear Reader; What would you do to see justice served? In The Beauty, Jacqueline is certain that joining a convent is preferable to marrying any man. Experience has left her fearful of men’s desires – of course, she doesn’t expect to be kidnapped en route to the convent and persuaded otherwise. Angus MacGillivray is a…

  • THE TEMPTRESS Reader Letter

    Dear Reader; Every once in a while, a character who appears in my stories who catches my interest right away. Esmeraude was just such a character. Although she was only two when she first fell from my fingertips – in The Countess – and even though she was willful, she charmed me from the start.…

  • ONCE UPON A KISS Reader Letter

    Dear Reader; Once Upon a Kiss is a time travel and romantic comedy which was originally published under my pseudonym Claire Cross, by Berkley in their Magical Love imprint in 1998. It was the first book with a contemporary setting that I ever sold, and also the first book that I sold to a publisher…

  • THE LAST HIGHLANDER Reader Letter

    Dear Reader; The Last Highlander is a time travel romance and romantic comedy which was originally published under my pseudonym Claire Cross, by Berkley in 1998. I wrote four books for Berkley – two for the Time Passages imprint and two for the Magical Love imprint. The titles were Once Upon a Kiss, The Last…

  • THE MOONSTONE Reader Letter

    Dear Reader – The Moonstone was one of four of my books that were published by Berkley under my pseudonym Claire Cross. All of these books are romantic comedies with paranormal elements – although they are technically not all time travels, I think of them as such because the hero and heroine in each story…