Marie Rydzynski-Ferrarella aka Marie Charles, Marie Michael, Marie Nicole, Marie Ferrarella Marie Rydzynski was born on March 28 in West Germany to Polish parents. She moved to America at the age of four. For an entire year, Marie and her family explored the eastern half of the country before finally settling in New York. Marie swears she was born writing, "which must have made the delivery especially hard for my mother." From an early age, Marie's parents would find her watching television or tucked away in some private place, writing at a furious pace. "Initially, I began writing myself into my favourite shows. I was a detective on '77 Sunset Strip,' the missing Cartwright sibling they never talked about on 'Bonanza' and the 'Girl from U.N.C.L.E.' before there was a 'Girl from U.N.C.L.E.,' not to mention an active participant in the serialized stories of 'The Mickey Mouse Club.'" Marie began to write her first romance novel when she was 11 years old, although she claims that, at the time, she didn't even realize it was a romance! She scribbled off and on, while dreaming of a career as an actress. Marie was only 14 when she first laid eyes on the man she would marry, truly her first love, Charles Ferrarella. During her days at Queens College, New York, acting started to lose its glamour as Marie spent more and more time writing. After receiving her English degree, specialising in Shakespearean comedy, Marie and her family moved to Southern California, where she still resides today. After an interminable seven weeks apart, Charles decided he couldn't live without her and came out to California to marry his childhood sweetheart. Ever practical, Marie was married in a wash-and-wear wedding dress that she sewed herself, appliqués and all. "'Be prepared' has always been my motto,"the author jokes. This motto has been stretched considerably by her two children, Nikky and Jessi, "but basically, it still applies," she says. In November of 1981, she sold her first novel for Harlequin. Marie, who now has written over 150 novels, has one goal: to entertain, to make people laugh and feel good. "That's what makes me happy," she confesses. "That, and a really good romantic evening with my husband." She's keeping her fingers crossed that her reader's enjoy reading her books as much as she enjoyed writing them.
Series
Books
Coming Home for Christmas
2015
The Spy Who Loved Her
2006
Crime and Passion
2003
Dangerous Disguise
2004
Real Vintage Maverick
2012
Cowboy's Rescue
2019
Montana Sheriff
2011
What the Single Dad Wants…
2011
A Lawman for Christmas
2009
A Match for the Doctor
2011
Remodeling the Bachelor
2007
Colton by Marriage
2010
Cavanaugh Justice
The Baby Trail
2022
My Spy
2008
The Baby Mission
2003
M.D. Most Wanted
2002
Becoming a Cavanaugh
2009
Undercover M.D.
2002
Mendoza's Secret Fortune
2015
Cavanaugh Justice
Serial Affair
2022
Heart of a Hero
2001
December 32…And Always
1983
Cavanaugh Cowboy
2019
Cavanaugh in the Rough
2017
A Maverick and a Half
2016
Loving the Right Brother
2009
Dangerous Games
2004
The Cowboy and the Baby
2016
Cowboy for Hire
2014
Twice a Hero, Always Her Man
2016
Husbands and Other Strangers
2006
Fortune's Second-Chance Cowboy
2017
Cavanaugh Hero
2013
A Husband Waiting to Happen
1998
Mistletoe and Miracles
2008
Innkeeper's Daughter
2013
Plain Jane and the Playboy
2008
My Phony Valentine
1997
Christmastime Courtship
2017
Colton Showdown
2012
Secret Defender
2021
The Sheriff's Christmas Surprise
2010
The Pregnant Colton Bride
2016
An Abundance of Babies
2001
Cavanaugh Fortune
2015
Adding Up to Family
2018
In Bed with the Badge
2010
Mother in Training
2006
Cavanaugh's Secret Delivery
2018
The Woman Who Wasn't There
2006
Cavanaugh's Bodyguard
2012
The Cowboy's Lesson in Love
2018
Mother for Hire
1989
Christmas Cowboy Duet
2014
Moonlight Rebel
1992
Moonlight Surrender
1994
Mommy and the Policeman Next Door
1997
Capturing the Millionaire
2007
Your Baby or Mine?
1997
Let's Get Mommy Married
1996
Father Goose
1992
Mr. Hall Takes a Bride
2007
The Doctor's Forever Family
2011
Five-Alarm Affair
1988
Cavanaugh Rules
2012
Hero for Hire
2000
She's Having a Baby
2005
The Agent's Secret Baby
2009
A Dad At Last
2000
Romancing The Teacher
2011
Christmas Every Day
1993
Wish Upon a Matchmaker
2013
Ten Years Later…
2013
Travis's Appeal
2009
In Broad Daylight
2004
The Cavanaugh Code
2009
Exposing Colton Secrets
2020
Internal Affair
2003
Choices
1993
Happy New Year-Baby!
1995
Father in the Making
1995
The Amnesiac Bride
1997
Her Good Fortune
2005
Texas Rose
2002
Sapphire and Shadow
1991
Do You Take This Child?
1996
Carrying His Secret
2015
Christmas Bride
1996
Cavanaugh Pride
2009
A Bachelor and a Baby
2003
The Baby Came C.O.D.
1997
A Doctor's Secret
2008
The M.D. Meets His Match
2001
Fortune's Greatest Risk
2020
Forgotten Honeymoon
1997
Protecting His Witness
2008
Wife in the Mail
1998
Cavanaugh's Missing Person
2019
Found
His Perfect Wife
2000
Wanted
Husband, Will Train
1997
Saving Home
2015
A Billionaire and a Baby
2003
Diagnosis
Danger
2007
A Forever Christmas
2012
A Hero in Her Eyes
2001
Colton's Secret Service
2008
Texan Seeks Fortune
2019
Dr. Forget-Me-Not
2016
Once Upon a Matchmaker
2012
Ramona and the Renegade
2010
The Last First Kiss
2012
Finding Home
2006
A Widow's Guilty Secret
2012
Suddenly… Marriage!
1998
The Colton Ransom
2013
Cavanaugh Justice
Detecting a Killer
2023
Her Mistletoe Cowboy
2015
World's Greatest Dad
1992
Diamonds and Deceptions
2004
Irresistible Forces
1984
His Forever Valentine
2013
The 39-Year-Old Virgin
2009
Her Special Charm
2005
Angus's Lost Lady
1998
Lily and the Lawman
2002
The Prodigal M.D. Returns
2006
Lassoing the Deputy
2012
Cavanaugh or Death
2016
Diamond in the Rough
2008
Smoldering Embers
1982
Rough Around the Edges
2001
The Law and Ginny Marlow
1998
The 7 Lb., 2 Oz. Valentine
1995
How to Seduce a Cavanaugh
2015
Cavanaugh's Surrender
2012
The Women in Joe Sullivan's Life
1995
Traci On The Spot
1997
Cavanaugh Standoff
2017
The Doctor's Guardian
2011
A Small Town Thanksgiving
2013
Finding Happily-Ever-After
2010
This Heart For Hire
1999
The Late Bloomer's Road to Love
2021
Never Too Late for Love
1998
Dad by Choice
2000
The Heiress's 2-Week Affair
2009
And Babies Make Four
2003
Cassandra in Moonlight
1998
Cavanaugh Justice
Deadly Chase
2022
Once a Father
2002
An Unexpected Father
2021
Colton Undercover
2017
Cavanaugh Heat
2008
Taming the Playboy
2007
Flash and Fire
1994
Diamond in the Ruff
2014
Searching for Cate
2005
The Cowboy's Christmas Surprise
2013
Hero in the Nick of Time
1999
Colton Baby Conspiracy
2019
A Wedding for Christmas
2014
Holiday in a Stetson
The Sheriff Who Found Christmas /A Rancho Diablo Christmas
2011
Her Red-Carpet Romance
2015
Tall, Strong & Cool Under Fire
2000
Mission
Cavanaugh Baby
2013
In His Protective Custody
2011
The Second Time Around
2007
Military Man
2005
Expecting… In Texas
1999
Cavanaugh Judgment
2010
The Bride Wore Blue Jeans
2003
The Once and Future Father
2000
Second Chance Colton
2015
The Strong Silent Type
2004
The Cowboy and the Lady
2015
A Perfectly Imperfect Match
2013
Alone in the Dark
2004
Immovable Objects
2004
Father Most Wanted
2000
Moonlight Lover
1993
A Baby Changes Everything
2005
A Baby on the Ranch
2012
Borrowed Baby
1990
Cavanaugh Stakeout
2019
Private Justice
2011
The Baby Wore a Badge
2011
Cavanaugh Watch
2006
The Disenchanted Duke
2002
The Bachelor
2014
Cavanaugh's Woman
2004
The Measure of a Man
2005
Fortune's Valentine Bride
2012
The Inheritance
2001
Colton Copycat Killer
2016
Labor of Love
2011
Cavanaugh in Plain Sight
2020
Safe Harbor
2014
Her Lawman on Call
2007
Colton's Pursuit of Justice
2022
Special Agent's Perfect Cover
2011
