AMERICAN UPSTART She was sold like a racehorse to the highest bidder: Julian Herriot, Baron de Verlaine. Regina Pierce, with her beauty and an embarrassment of riches, exchanged a gold miner's dowry for one of the oldest titles in France. Sheltered, spoiled Regina entered a world where marriage was business and love was something else. Something like ravishing Simone de Lamartine, who made it clear that money was Regina's only passport to aristocracy—that Julian was forever beyond her reach. Theirs might have been a marriage of convenience like many others, but for one thing: Regina had fallen desperately in love with the man she married. And she was determined to win him—by any means!
Author
See pseudonyms Louisa Bronte, Rebecca Danton & Janette Radcliffe. Some of the listed titles are more straight romance than romantic suspense. Janet Louise Roberts was born on January 20, 1925, in New Britain Connecticut, the daughter of a missionary in a conservative church. She wrote contemporary, historical, and gothic romances, as well as occult horror romances such as The Devil’s Own, Isle of the Dolphins, Lord Satan, and Her Demon Lover. She used pseudonyms for several of her works. Roberts died on June 11, 1982 in Dayton, Ohio.
