Elizabeth Essex is a USAToday Bestselling and award-winning author of critically acclaimed historical romance, including the Reckless Brides and Highland Brides series. Her books have been nominated for numerous awards, including the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence, the Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice and Seal of Excellence awards, and RWA’s prestigious RITA Award. The Reckless Brides books have also made top-tier lists from Romantic Times, The Romance Reviews, and Affair de Coeur Magazine, and the entire series was awarded Desert Isle Keeper status at All About Romance. Her fifth book, A BREATH OF SCANDAL was awarded Best Historical in the Reader’s Crown 2013.
When not re-reading Jane Austen, mucking about in her garden, or messing about with boats, Elizabeth can be found at her laptop, making up stories about heroes and heroines who live far more exciting lives than she. It wasn’t always so—long before she ever set pen to paper, Elizabeth graduated from Hollins College with a B.A. in Classics and Art History, and then earned her M.A. in Nautical Archaeology from Texas A & M University. While she loved the life of an underwater archaeologist, she has found her true calling writing lush, lyrical historical romance full of passion, daring and adventure.
Elizabeth lives in Texas with her husband, the Indispensable Mr. Essex, her active and exuberant family, and her darling dogs, Ghillie and Brogue, in an old house filled to the brim with books.
After the Scandal (Reckless Brides Book 3)
In English society, the rules of engagement have stood the test of time. Until a Reckless Bride falls in deeply, scandalously in love…
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Mad For Love (Highland Brides Book 1)
From acclaimed author Elizabeth Essex comes an irresistible prequel novella introducing the Highland Brides, a quartet of bold, brilliant lasses determined to make their own happily ever afters.
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Mad About the Marquess (Highland Brides Book 2)
From acclaimed author Elizabeth Essex comes the adventurous first book in the Highland Brides, a quartet of bold, brilliant lasses determined to make their own happily ever afters.
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A Fine Madness (Highland Brides Book 3)
The entirely of Miss Elspeth Otis’s inheritance from her wastrel father is a battered old trunk with some scrawled-upon foolscap sheets. Nothing that could free her from a stifling life with her fusty maiden aunties in a musty old cottage in a misty corner of Scotland. Nothing that will give her the life she’s always dreamed of—a life full of kindness and kisses and love. Or will it?
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Mad, Plaid and Dangerous to Marry (Highland Brides Book 4)
For Ewan Cameron, Duke of Crieff, the time has come—his carefully-planned future is about to begin. Heir to a great Highland estate, he will finally meet and marry his long-time betrothed, Lady Greer Douglas, and be happy. But on the way to his wedding, a vicious attack steals everything he holds dear—his home, his happiness, and his every memory.
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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
From award winning author Elizabeth Essex comes an enchanting prequel to the Kent Brothers Chronicles...
JUST ONE BITE... Nessa Teague has never believed in the magic that swirls around her village like a fine Cornish mist. She’s never had need of it. Until the day Lord Harry Beck returns to Bocka Morrow and Nessa realizes there is nothing, including the blackest of magic, she won’t do to have him for her own.
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The Dartmouth Brides: A Collection
A collection of the Dartmouth Brides, a quartet of unconventional, incomparable heroines determined to find their own trues loves.
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Daughters of the Dagger
Lady Mirabelle de Burgh is desperate to give her husband an heir. She's heard of the superstition that to buy a jeweled dagger from a blind old hag ensures conception. It is said one child will be conceived for each dagger purchased.
The old hag on Grope Lane has five jeweled daggers and Mirabelle wants them all. However, she only has enough money for four. When her greed lands her in a bad situation, what started as a noble cause ends up in a way that no one could have ever suspected.
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Highland Echo (Highland Talents Heritage Book 5)
Eilidh Lathan is bound to the Aerie by the echo in her blood of her mother’s healing talent and her love for one man. If only she had the courage to tell him—and he felt the same.
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The Prince of Sin…
Legendary swordsman Adam Slade is finished with noble crusades. Scarred by his time at Culloden Moor, and his illegitimate birth, he hides behind a cynical façade and the name of Sabrehawk, selling his sword to the highest bidder.