Katherine Vickery is a pseudonym for Kathryn Kramer. Vickery is her mother's maiden name. She began writing in 1983 and has written a total of 42 historical romance novels. The first Katherine Vickery novel was FLAME OF DESIRE published by NAL (now Penguin). All historical romance novels are available on Amazon in both ebook and paperback format.
Katherine is from the Rocky Mountain area of the United States – Boulder, Colorado, home of the beautiful Flatirons Mountains. She has won the Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Awards several years in a row.
Katherine brings a love of history to her writing--English and European history, Ancient and American History.
Prior to writing, Kathy sang with a jazz band and devoted her time to music via theater, teaching and singing professionally. She attended the University of Colorado College of Music on a music scholarship. She added modeling to her itinerary when she modeled as the heroine for the cover of her novel, LADY ROGUE.
The first Katherine Vickery historical romance--FLAME OF DESIRE--was published by NAL (now Penguin) in 1986. It won the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award. Since that time Katherine has published 42 historical romance novels writing as Vickery and as Kathryn Hockett and Kathryn Kramer, including three new historical romance novels. All of her previous novels are now available on Amazon in ebook format.
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Katherine Vickery books:
FLAME OF DESIRE
SEA OF DESIRE
WHISPER ON THE WIND
TAME THE WILD WIND
ARROW TO THE HEART
DESIRE OF THE HEART
FLAME ACROSS THE HIGHLANDS
ELIZABETHAN ERA BOOKS
In the dark of the morning of November 17, 1558, the clamor of bells announced the death of one queen and the accession of another. Mary Tudor, whose reign had been clouded by religious unrest and persecution, was gone forever. Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, now reigned. She united the country and won the love of her subjects. Unlike Mary, who was half Spanish, Elizabeth was totally English and more cherished because of it.
The forty-five year period from 1558 to 1603, the reign of Elizabeth I of England, is considered to be the English renaissance and the Golden Age of theater. Such names as Christopher Marlow, Ben Johnson, Edmund Spenser, and William Shakespeare are associated with that era of fruitful literary achievement.
It was also the era when small English ships took the entire ocean for their province, using the British coast as lairs. They sailed forth to seize their plunder from wealth-fattened Spanish vessels without regard to the propriety of the taking. Though Elizabeth publicly disowned them, she privately encouraged them and did not disturb them.
An uneasy peace dragged on until continual English raids on Spanish ships and Spain’s involvement with supporters of the rival Catholic claimant to the English throne, the imprisoned Mary Stuart, severed relations. In towns and villages there was unrest and talk of schemes, spies, plots and foreign agents, or traitors.
In the year 1586, nearly thirty years after her coronation, both Philip and Elizabeth prepared for a war that would decide the mastery of the seas and theological domination. Philip ordered his best admiral to prepare the largest armada history had ever known in order to invade England and dethrone the English queen.
LONDON - 1553:
A streak of lightning and a roar of thunder disturb the night and seem to be a prelude to the storm sweeping over England. The boy king, Edward VI is dead and the ambitious lords who stand over him, like preying vultures, are ready to fight over who will be the next to wear the crown. In defense of the legitimate heir—Mary Tudor—Richard Morgan must risk his life to flee from his enemies and ride to warn her.
Heather Bowen, the sheltered daughter of London’s richest silk merchant, had known desire only in her dreams until she met the dark, handsome rebel. Now her dawning love for this fugitive defender of Mary Tudor would lead her through the storms of a land divided by war, and into the clutches of enemies who would use any vengeful means—murder, forced marriage to others, threats of execution—to keep the lovers apart.
Swept up in the tumult of the times, fighting the raging flames of hatred which threaten their desire, Heather and Richard vow to sanctify their forbidden love, even if it means going up against “Bloody Mary” herself.
Award winning novel -- Flame of Desire-- is the first book in the saga of the Morgan family. Indigo Sea continues the story as it enfolds during the Golden Age of England under the reign of Elizabeth.
ENGLAND AND SPAIN -
A dangerous rivalry, a cunning plot, a web of intrigue and the threat of an armada ensnare a handsome English privateer and a beautiful young woman of Spanish-English heritage. Swept up in the furor of an impending war, their love and desire will face the ultimate trial.
A practical woman who had stopped waiting for love, Anne Morgan wed a Spanish diplomat to forge an alliance between their two warring countries. But when her husband disappeared overboard after their ship was attacked by a privateer, Anne found s herself forced into a fierce duel of wits, willpower and passion with the handsome ship’s captain.
Jonathan Leighton boldly made Anne his prisoner only to find that it was he who was being held hostage by her sensuous beauty and defiant courage. Fearing that her loveliness masked a traitorous soul, however, he took her before the Queen, a betrayal that goaded Anne into an act of revenge.
United on a mission that tests their loyalty to their country and their growing love for each other they are entrapped by the sinister and ruthless “spymaster” Sir Francis Walsingham—who plays one lover against the other in a most dangerous game.
Romance, intrigue, and adventure highlight the continuing story of the Morgan and Leighton families that was begun in Flame of Desire.
Jonathan Leighton also appears in the Kathryn Kramer historical romance novel HIGHLAND BRIDE.
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