Wild at Heart, Topaz Publishing (New York, NY), 1997. Outlaw in Paradise, Wheeler Publishing (Rockland, MA), 1997. To Have and to Hold (second novel in 'Wyckerley' trilogy), Topaz Publishing (New York, NY), 1995.įorever and Ever (second novel in 'Wyckerley' trilogy), Topaz Publishing (New York, NY), 1996. To Love and to Cherish (first novel in 'Wyckerley' trilogy), Topaz Publishing (New York, NY), 1995. Sweet Everlasting, Topaz (New York, NY), 1993.Ĭrooked Hearts, Topaz (New York, NY), 1994. Lily, Dorchester Publishing (New York, NY), 1991.Īnother Eden, Dorchester Publishing (New York, NY), 1992. Thief of Hearts, Dorchester Publishing (New York, NY), 1990. Sweet Treason, Dorchester Publishing ( New York, NY), 1989.įortune's Lady, Dorchester Publishing ( New York, NY), 1989. Romance Writers of America Golden Heart award, 1989, for Sweet Treason RITA award finalist, Romance Writers of America, for Fortune's Lady Best English Historical Romance award nomination, Romantic Times, for Lily Best Victorian Historical Romance award nomination, Romantic Times, for Another Eden. English teacher, East Mecklenburg High School, Charlotte, NC worked variously as a freelance photographer and court reporter. studied at Royal Holloway College, London and George Washington University University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, M.A. Ethnicity: 'Irish American.' Education: Marymount College, B.A. Gaffney may have written a different kind of romance, but it is also unsavory.(Sept.Born 1944, in Tampa, FL daughter of Jim (a lawyer) and Joem (a homemaker) Gaffney married. Gaffney tries to justify this by the fact that he wants only ``to give her pleasure,'' while her dead husband had found ``pleasure in giving her pain.'' The explanation is not enough to take the bad taste from one's mouth, nor does it help endear a hero who in one scene allows his jaded London friends to spend an amusing evening in tormenting Rachel about her past. After it becomes obvious that Rachel suffered at the hands of her husband, Sebastian continues to force Rachel to submit to his own selfish desires. To save Rachel from another jail term, he hires her as his housekeeper, a position, everyone assumes, that includes more intimate duties. From the first, Sebastian admits that his attraction for Rachel has something a bit perverse about it-an odd theme that runs the length of this romance set in 19th-century England. Bored, debauched, selfish and quite willing to admit it, Sebastian is intrigued by Rachel, who seems old beyond her years and beaten by the world. After spending ten years in prison for killing her husband, the newly released Rachel Wade is picked up for vagrancy and brought before the magistrate, Sebastian Verlaine, Viscount D'Aubrey.

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