Tessa Dare
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| Pen name | Tessa Dare |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 2009–present |
| Genre | historical romance |
| Notable works | A Night to Surrender |
| Notable awards | RITA award – Best Regency Historical Romance 2012 A Night to Surrender |
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Tessa Dare is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling American historical romance novelist. She has authored fifteen novels and novellas and created five different series. In 2012, she won the Romance Writers of America RITA award for Best Regency Historical Romance for her book A Night to Surrender.[1]
During childhood, her family moved often and books took on an important role for her. She says they became "my refuge, my entertainment, my source of information on all sorts of topics... in a way, they were my home. Whenever I felt lonely or uprooted, opening a familiar book gave me comfort. I would read through dinner, read through classes, read into the wee hours of the night, and, yes, I even read while walking!"[2]
Dare works as a full-time author and currently resides in Southern California with her husband, two children, and three cats.[3]
Her writing
Her first publicly seen fiction was Jane Austen fan fiction written under the pen name Vangie.[4] Shortly afterward, she entered and won the first Avon FanLit contest and her short story "Forget Me Not" was published as Chapter Four of the HarperCollins e-book, These Wicked Games.[5] It was from this competition that she broke into publishing, along with the other winner, Courtney Milan.[6]
Dare then signed with Ballantine to publish her debut novel, Goddess of the Hunt. In 2011, she switched to Avon with the first book in her Spindle Cove series, A Night to Surrender[7]
When asked why she mixes serious emotion with humor, she tied it back to her first date with her husband. "I ran into a flagpole, face-first. More than a decade later, we're still laughing about it. So the juxtaposition of comic absurdity and deeply felt emotion just seems real to me, because it mirrors my own life."[2]
Bibliography
The Wanton Dairymaid Trilogy
0.5 "The Legend of the Werestag" (prequel)/ "How to Catch a Wild Viscount" new title
1. Goddess of the Hunt (2009)
2. Surrender of a Siren (2009)
3. A Lady of Persuasion (2009)
Stud Club Trilogy
- One Dance with a Duke (2010)
- Twice Tempted by a Rogue (2010)
- Three Nights with a Scoundrel (2010)
Spindle Cove Series
1. A Night to Surrender (2011)
1.5 "Once Upon a Winter's Eve" (2011)
2. A Week to Be Wicked (2012)
3. A Lady by Midnight (2012)
3.5. "Beauty and the Blacksmith"
4. Any Duchess Will Do (2013)
4.5. Lord Dashwood Missed Out (2015)
5. Do You Want to Start a Scandal (2016)
"(Castles Ever After crossover)"
Castles Ever After
- Romancing the Duke (February 2014)
- Say Yes to the Marquess (January 2015)
- When a Scot Ties the Knot (August 2015)
- Do You Want to Start a Scandal (Sept 2016)
Girl Meets Duke series
- The Duchess Deal (2017)
- The Governess Game (2018)
- The Wallflower Wager (2019)
- The Bride Bet
