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Anne Mather is the pseudonym used by Mildred Grieveson, a popular British author of over 160 romance novels. She also signed novels as Caroline Fleming and Cardine Fleming.
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Donna Hill is an American author of romance, mystery, and women's fiction. She has written over seventy novels, twenty short stories, and edited multiple anthologies. Three of Hill's novels have been adapted for screen.
Laura Croghan Kamoie is an American historian and author. She writes historical fiction under her own name and romance under the name Laura Kaye.
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- ↑ "Emma Awards | Romance Slam Jam". www.romanceslamjam.org. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
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