Carole Mortimer (born 1960 in England) is a popular British writer of over 150 romance novels since 1978. She was one of Mills & Boon's youngest authors, and now is one of their most popular and prolific authors.
Biography
Carole Mortimer was born about 1960 in a very rural hamlet in the east England, and she had two brothers. She studied only one year of nursing, and ended up working in the computer department of a well-known stationery company, where she started to write her first manuscript.
The manuscript was rejected by Mills & Boon, but the second was accepted and was published in 1978 as The Passionate Winter. She became one of the youngest and most prolific Mills & Boon's authors. She celebrated the publication of her 100th book, 20 years after her debut, and 30 years after this, she published her first historical novels, in the Mills & Boon Historical series.
In 2012 she was recognised by Queen Elizabeth II for her 'outstanding service to literature'. In 2014 she received a Pioneer of Romance Award from Romantic Times in the US.
In 2015 she started writing her first indie series called Alpha, as well as her Harlequin Mills & Boon books. And on 15 March 2015 she published her 200th book, titled Shadow Alpha, which was recognised, along with her other achievements by being awarded the 2015 RWA Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award.
Carole married to Peter, father to two children, they had four sons more, and now the family is formed by six children (with 22 years of difference between the first-born and the unexpected youngest child.
Bibliography
Single novels
The Passionate Winter (1978) The Tempestuous Flame (1979) Tempted by Desire (1979) Only Lover (1979) Savage Interlude (1979) Deceit of a Pagan (1980) Engaged to Jarrod Stone (1980) Fear of Love (1980) Yesterday's Scars (1980) Brand of Possession (1980) Living Together (1980) Devil Lover (1981) Flame of Desire (1981) Ice in His Veins (1981) Satan's Master (1981) First Love, Last Love (1981) Freedom to Love (1981) Point of No Return (1981) Forbidden Surrender (1982) Love's Duel (1982) Captive Loving (1982) Shadowed Stranger (1982) Burning Obsession (1982) Red Rose for Love (1982) Forgotten Lover (1982) Elusive Lover (1982) Golden Fever (1982) Passion from the Past (1982) Perfect Partner (1982) Hidden Love (1982) Fantasy Girl (1983) Love Unspoken (1983) Love's Only Deception (1983) Sensual Encounter (1983) Lifelong Affair (1983) Undying Love (1983) Pagan Enchantment (1983) The Failed Marriage (1983) Subtle Revenge (1983) Heaven Here on Earth (1983) Hard to get (1984) Lost Love (1984) Untamed (1984) Unwilling Desire (1984) Gypsy (1985) A No Risk Affair (1985) Tempestuous Affair (1985) Passionate Lover (1985) Trust in Tomorrow (1985) A Past Revenge (1985) Lovers in the Afternoon (1985) Cherish Tomorrow (1985) aka Trust in Tomorrow The Devil's Price (1985) Lady Surrender (1985) Darkness into Light (1985) Knight's Possession (1985) Glass Slippers and Unicorns (1986) The Wade Dynasty (1986) No Longer a Dream (1986) Hawk's Prey (1986) Merlyn's Magic (1986) Velvet Promise (1986) A Rogue and a Pirate (1986) After the Loving (1987) Tangled Hearts (1987) Taggart's Woman (1987) Witchchild (1987) aka Just One Night Secret Passion (1987) Wish for the Moon (1987) Uncertain Destiny (1987) Elusive as the Unicorn (1989) Memories of the Past (1991) Romance of a Lifetime (1991) The Jilted Bridegroom (1992) Mother of the Bride (1992) Private Lives (1992) Elusive Obsession (1992) Gracious Lady (1993) Return Engagement (1993) Hunter's Moon (1993) War of Love (1994) The One and Only (1995) One-man Woman (1996) Wildest Dreams (1997) A Marriage to Remember (1997) Married by Christmas (1998) Married by Contract (1998) Jilted (1998) Joined by Marriage (1998) Trials by Marriage (1999) A Man to Marry (1999) The Yuletide Engagement (1999) A Yuletide Seduction (1999) Their Engagement Is Announced (2000) Bound by Contract (2000) The Secret Virgin (2001) The Fiance Fix (2002) Keeping Luke's Secret (2002) In Separate Bedrooms (2003) His Bid for a Bride (2004) Claiming His Christmas Bride (2004) The Vengeance Affair (2004) Christmas Night Miracle (2006) The Innocent Virgin (2006) Meant to Wed (2007) The Venetian's Midnight Mistress (2008) Bedded for the Spaniard's Pleasure (2009) Pregnant with the Billionaire's Baby (2009) The Virgin Secretary's Impossible Boss (2009) The Infamous Italian's Secret Baby (2009) His Christmas Virgin (2010) Surrender to the past (2011) The Talk of Hollywood (2012)
King-Hamilton Series
Trust in Summer Madness (1983) Everlasting Love (1984)