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Shannon Donnelly

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Shannon Donnelly's writing has won numerous awards, including a RITA nomination for Best Regency, the Grand Prize in the "Minute Maid Sensational Romance Writer" contest, judged by Nora Roberts, RWA's Golden Heart, and others. Her work has repeatedly earned 4½ Star Top Pick reviews from Romantic Times magazine, as well as praise from Booklist and other reviewers, who note: "simply superb"..."wonderfully uplifting"....and "beautifully written."

In addition to her Regency romances, she has had novellas published in several anthologies, has had young adult horror stories published and is the author of several computer games.
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Merry Month of May

That phrase is probably much older than its use in a poem by Thomas Dekker in the Tudor era, but he writes:

“O the month of May, the merry month of May,
    So frolic, so gay, and so green, so green, so green!
O, and then did I unto my true love say:
    ‘Sweet Peg, thou shalt be my summer’s queen!”

The origins of celebrating May 1 go far back in time, with the date being Beltane and the official start

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