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Romancing the Crown #7
Her Lord Protector
Her Lord Protector by Eileen Wilks released on Jun 24, 2002 is available now for purchase.
256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published July 1, 2002
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Eileen Wilks
131 books1,526 followersEileen Wilks’ first book, a Silhouette Desire published in 1996, hit the USA Today Bestseller List and was nominated for Romantic Times' Best First Short Contemporary award. Since then, her books have appeared consistently on national bestseller lists. With thirty two books in print and novellas in nine anthologies, she has been a finalist in the prestigious Rita Awards three times, as well as receiving several nominations from Romantic Times, including one for Career Achievement in Series Romantic Suspense.
Each book in her World of the Lupi series gains a larger audience. It was originally sold in the Romance section of bookstores, but more and more you will be able to find copies cross-shelved under Sci-Fi and Fantasy as the popularity of the series grows!
Eileen has lived in the West Texas town of Midland, TX for over 30 years--three years as a young teen, and the remaining years since she moved back here as an adult. When she first started writing over 10 years ago, it hit her like the first drink for an alcoholic . . . or the first kiss for Romeo and Juliet.
She came to writing romance in a roundabout way. Having read and loved science fiction for years, that’s where she first tried her hand when the writing bug bit. Somehow her stories always ended up having a strong romantic subplot, but she hadn’t read a romance since the early 80’s and didn’t think “those little books” were her kind of stories. But when a friend in her critique group began working on a romance novel, Wilks decided she needed to give the genre another try. She asked her friend to recommend some titles--and quicker than you can say “Jayne Ann Krentz,” she fell in love. The genre had been busy growing up while she wasn’t watching. These days, with romances comprising over 50% of the mass market books published in the U.S., there are romances to appeal to almost every taste--historicals, paranormals and contemporaries that range from romantic suspense to romantic comedy, from inspirational to sizzling.
Eileen covered a lot of territory before coming home to Midland, having lived in Canada and Venezuela as well as twelve U.S. cities in five states.
Profile taken from the author's site with her permission.
Each book in her World of the Lupi series gains a larger audience. It was originally sold in the Romance section of bookstores, but more and more you will be able to find copies cross-shelved under Sci-Fi and Fantasy as the popularity of the series grows!
Eileen has lived in the West Texas town of Midland, TX for over 30 years--three years as a young teen, and the remaining years since she moved back here as an adult. When she first started writing over 10 years ago, it hit her like the first drink for an alcoholic . . . or the first kiss for Romeo and Juliet.
She came to writing romance in a roundabout way. Having read and loved science fiction for years, that’s where she first tried her hand when the writing bug bit. Somehow her stories always ended up having a strong romantic subplot, but she hadn’t read a romance since the early 80’s and didn’t think “those little books” were her kind of stories. But when a friend in her critique group began working on a romance novel, Wilks decided she needed to give the genre another try. She asked her friend to recommend some titles--and quicker than you can say “Jayne Ann Krentz,” she fell in love. The genre had been busy growing up while she wasn’t watching. These days, with romances comprising over 50% of the mass market books published in the U.S., there are romances to appeal to almost every taste--historicals, paranormals and contemporaries that range from romantic suspense to romantic comedy, from inspirational to sizzling.
Eileen covered a lot of territory before coming home to Midland, having lived in Canada and Venezuela as well as twelve U.S. cities in five states.
Profile taken from the author's site with her permission.
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March 6, 2022
I confess some of the psychic jargon was hard to follow but FINALLY we're getting towards some resolution on the B plot from the very first book!
I love a headstrong female protagonist, especially when she's telling off royalty.
I love a headstrong female protagonist, especially when she's telling off royalty.
October 23, 2012
This Silhouette Intimate Moments category romance already shows the particular strengths that I like about Wilks' World of the Lupi series: here hero and heroine are part of their own family and friends circle and it is important, crucially so, to both of them.
Both are loyal, both are good at their jobs and enjoy them. The set-up of having to not be full out honest with one another due to various valid reasons from both sides is done away with quite quickly, really. The dialogue shows not tells that they have an gift for flirt and also an ability to cut through crap if necessary - I admire that.
There's a paranormal thread in this book with psychic powers and Wilks even here casually integrates it into the series' background of a tiny island kingdom in the Mediterranean with traditions from all times and all religions and a strong emphasis on trade (I wonder if Malta is the real life model).
There's a lovely scene at a local festivity which emphasizes these values a lot. The category bit did rear its head in the artificial interruption of the first consummation scene, but that is to be expected.
I'm already happy enough that I have started reading the second of my impulse Wilks category buys.
Both are loyal, both are good at their jobs and enjoy them. The set-up of having to not be full out honest with one another due to various valid reasons from both sides is done away with quite quickly, really. The dialogue shows not tells that they have an gift for flirt and also an ability to cut through crap if necessary - I admire that.
There's a paranormal thread in this book with psychic powers and Wilks even here casually integrates it into the series' background of a tiny island kingdom in the Mediterranean with traditions from all times and all religions and a strong emphasis on trade (I wonder if Malta is the real life model).
There's a lovely scene at a local festivity which emphasizes these values a lot. The category bit did rear its head in the artificial interruption of the first consummation scene, but that is to be expected.
I'm already happy enough that I have started reading the second of my impulse Wilks category buys.
October 4, 2011
It's part of a series so there is alot of other things going on with the people in the background. Kind of annoying since you know you have to get their book to find out what happens, but you know it'll be worth it since it's a book about them it won't be a hurried snippit
October 30, 2008
I'm kind of ashamed to say I liked it!
March 14, 2013
I was more interested in how closely the world building here resembles that in her Lupi series than the story for itself.
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