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Catherine LaRoche

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Catherine LaRoche


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Catherine LaRoche is the romance pen name of Catherine Roach, who is a professor of cultural studies and gender studies in New College at the University of Alabama. Catherine won the Romance Writers of America Academic Research Grant in 2009 and is writing a book on how the story of romance—“find your one true love and live happily ever after”—is the most powerful narrative in popular culture.

A lifelong reader of romance novels, she combines fiction writing of historical romance with academic writing about the romance genre for the best of best worlds. When not writing, reading, or teaching about romance, she enjoys hiking, cooking for friends, and spending family summers at a lake in her native Canada, where her loon call is known to some
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Average rating: 3.48 · 138 ratings · 43 reviews · 5 distinct works
Master of Love

3.55 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
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Knight of Love

3.27 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions
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麗しの子爵ときまじめな令嬢

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“He saw with pleasure he’d been wrong. The nervous tension and vulnerability she radiated were real, but so too was the core of strength to her. She was simply too smart and too determined to let him get to her, despite the cost evident in her stiff back and tense mouth.
He was beginning to quite like his new librarian.”
Catherine LaRoche, Master of Love

“Sighing, she headed back to work. She braced herself to lift the heavy lid of yet another trunk. The sight inside curled a small smile onto her lips, as it had with every trunk she’d pried open this morning.
Books. More beautiful, precious books.”
Catherine LaRoche, Master of Love

“Why are you kissing me?” she squeaked out breathlessly.
“God, how can I not?” He ran his hands up and down her arms. “I think you’re made for me to kiss. I need to kiss you. You need to be kissed,” he said firmly, as if he’d reached some decision that brooked no debate. This did not sound like the smooth-talking and self-possessed charmer of his reputation.”
Catherine LaRoche, Master of Love

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