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Jeannie Lin

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USA TODAY Bestselling author Jeannie Lin grew up fascinated with stories of Western epic fantasy and Eastern martial arts adventures. When her best friend introduced her to romance novels in middle school, the stage was set. Jeannie started writing her first romance while working as a high school science teacher in South Central Los Angeles. After four years of trying to break into publishing with an Asian-set historical, her 2009 Golden Heart Award–winning manuscript, Butterfly Swords, sold to Harlequin Mills & Boon. Her books have received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Library Journal with The Dragon and the Pearl listed among Library Journal's Best Romances of 2011.

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“Thank the heavens for tea. How did people ever come together without it?”
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“Li Tao had caught a single glimpse of her the first time he had been to the palace. The hunger that had gripped him had been immediate and all-consuming. He had been a young man then and had hungered for many things: acclaim, respect and power. The sight of her now, more than a decade later, stirred nothing but a faint echo of that forgotten desire.”
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“She played with her eyes closed. He closed his own eyes, joining her in the darkness. She had said the song depicted a battle, but nothing of the sort came to mind, no lofty images of horses and banners waving or battalions clashing over hills. Only darkness and a pure sound that filled him, creeping into spaces he hadn’t known were empty.”
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What should our April 2019 pick be? Our theme is Royalty.

The Raven Prince - Elizabeth Hoyt (Historical Romance)
 
  22 votes 25.6%

My Lady Jane - Cynthia Hand (Historical Fiction)
 
  21 votes 24.4%

The Winter King - C.L. Wilson (High Fantasy) (write-in)
 
  18 votes 20.9%

Butterfly Swords - Jeannie Lin (Historical Romance)
 
  12 votes 14.0%

The Princess Affair - Nell Stark (Contemporary Romance)
 
  10 votes 11.6%

Isabel the Fair - Margaret Campbell Barnes (Historical Fiction)
 
  3 votes 3.5%

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