Books by Jude Deveraux and Complete Book Reviews

Jude Deveraux. Ballantine, $27 (464p) ISBN 978-0-345-54179-6
Recent architecture school graduate Alix Madsen takes a year to live on Nantucket, Mass., where she plans to recover from a bad breakup, study for her exams, and prepare a portfolio. While she loves the island, her head truly gets turned when she...
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"If you had to do it all over again, what would you do?" is the question Deveraux poses in this wistful novel of second chances. Twenty-five years into her career, with 26 New York Times bestsellers to her credit and 30 million copies of her
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Jude Deveraux, Author Pocket Books $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-671-74462-5
No one is richer than the Maidenhall heiress. Miserly merchant Perkin Maidenhall is to Elizabethan England what John D. Rockefeller was to 20th-century America. And his daughter Axia, whom he has never met, stands to inherit the whole enchilada. But
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Jude Deveraux, Author Pocket Books $7.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-671-70509-1
According to PW , ``plodding, graceless prose'' undermines this romantic historical fantasy. Twentieth-century heroine Dougless Montgomery, an American heiress, falls in love with a reincarnated Elizabethan nobleman unjustly convicted of treason,...
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Jude Deveraux, Author Pocket Books $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-67857-9
In her hardcover debut, Deveraux ( The Taming ) offers an imaginative romantic historical fantasy, whose virtue of unpredictabiity is undermined by plodding, graceless prose. Vacationing in England with her lover, Robert, and his spoiled teenage...
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Jude Deveraux, Author Pocket Books $4.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-64448-2
Deveraux's ( A Knight in Shining Armor ) latest romance is a slight but amusing fantasy . Berni, a selfish woman of the 1980s (painted initially in strokes so broad as to approach caricature), awakens from her death swoon to find herself in an all-fe
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Jude Deveraux. Pocket, $7.99 mass market (432p) ISBN 978-0-7434-7902-8
Colonial South Carolina and Florida provide the steamy settings for New York Times-bestseller Deveraux's latest romance. Twenty-year-old Cay Harcourt expects a brief adventure when she sets off one dark night to do her godfather T.C. a favor by...
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Jude Deveraux. Atria, $27.99 (592p) ISBN 978-1-4516-5139-3
A graduate student comes to Edilean, Va., for a job, but finds herself on the rocky road to love in Deveraux's new blend of modern romance and historical fiction. Alea Frazier hires Gemma Ranford to organize the family papers with the hope that the...
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Jude Deveraux. Pocket, $7.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-1-4165-0974-5
Readers will blaze through Deveraux’s latest contemporary romance set in Edilean, Va. (after Aug. 2011’s Heartwishes). Jecca Layton was raised in New Jersey, but now she’s a committed New Yorker who manages an art gallery and hopes her own paintings
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Jude Deveraux, Author Pocket Books $7.99 (376p) ISBN 978-0-671-74458-8
In the three novellas collected here, bestselling romancer Deveraux ( Sweet Liar ) explores some of the limits of the genre she knows so well, indicating she may be as spunky as her heroines. In 1934, Jackie O'Neill returns to her hometown of...
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Jude Deveraux. Ballantine, $27 (400p) ISBN 978-0-345-54182-6
Deveraux’s pleasant second Nantucket Brides novel picks up where True Love left off: with Toby Wyndam preparing her friend Lexie’s perfect wedding. Toby doesn’t have time to play games with Graydon Montgomery, the groom’s cousin, who enjoys swapping
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Jude Deveraux. Ballantine, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-345-54185-7
The thoroughly enjoyable conclusion to the Nantucket Brides trilogy (after For All Time) features the offspring of the Montgomery-Taggerts, who have populated many of Deveraux’s previous novels, but it’s entirely accessible to new readers. Jamie...
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Jude Deveraux. Ballantine, $27 (384p) ISBN 978-1-101-88326-6
In this enjoyable start to a new trilogy set in the small town of Summer Hill, Va., Deveraux (True Love) playfully riffs off Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Casey Reddick leaves her demanding job as chef of a high-end Washington, D.C., restaurant
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Jude Deveraux. Mira, $26.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7783-0761-7
Deveraux’s pleasant latest in the Summerhouse series (after Return to Summerhouse) follows three women who meet through a mysterious therapist and bond over disappointing marriages and wasted years. After a loveless first marriage, Olivia, 60ish and
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Jude Deveraux. Mira, $26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7783-6929-5
Bestselling romance author Deveraux (Ever After) sets her overwrought debut mystery, an apparent series launch, in familiar territory. Successful romance writer Sara Medlar has returned in style to the Florida equivalent of Peyton Place, her...
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Jude Deveraux. Mira, $26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7783-0829-4
In bestseller Deveraux’s entertaining sequel to 2018’s A Willing Murder, Kate Medlar is happier than she has ever been since moving in with her aunt, Sara Medlar, and her aunt’s ex-lover’s grandson, the incredibly handsome Jack Wyatt, in Lachlan,...
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Jude Deveraux, Author . S&S/Atria $25 (384p) ISBN 978-0-671-01421-6
Perennially bestselling romance writer Deveraux's newest (put out by Atria, S&S's new hardcover imprint) tells the story of a 33-year-old woman's successful remaking of her life and self-image after the sudden death of her beloved...
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Jude Deveraux, Author . Pocket $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-671-01420-9
In Deveraux's previous novels (The Summerhouse;A Knight in Shining Armor; etc.), she has proven herself a master of stories mixing mystic mystery and history, time-travel and timeless love. This beguiling paranormal romance also has roots in the
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Jude Deveraux, Author . Atria $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7434-3712-7
Forget garden-variety ghosts and poltergeists—the devil himself makes an appearance in bestseller Deveraux's latest romantic suspense novel. When famed mystery writer Ford Newcombe loses his beloved wife, Pat, he can't bear the...
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Jude Deveraux, Author . Pocket $7.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7434-7708-6
The bliss that Darci Montgomery found by the end of Deveraux's last paranormal mystery-cum-romance, Forever, didn't last long, as this lackluster follow-up finds the pint-sized psychic alone once again, searching for her abducted husband....
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Jude Deveraux, Author . Pocket $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7434-7901-1
More like a video game without rules than a romance, Deveraux's follow-up to her previous paranormal romance, Forever and Always , is a madcap and often nonsensical romp through time and space. Jack Hallbrooke, a perpetually enraged undercover...
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Jude Deveraux, Author . Atria $25.95 (308p) ISBN 978-0-7434-3716-5
In Deveraux's familiar latest, Jace Montgomery's fiancée, Stacy, commits suicide while they're vacationing in England—or so, three years after her death, everybody but Jace believes. The chance discovery of a letter Stacy
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Jude Deveraux, Author . Atria $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7434-3718-9
Romance titan Deveraux (Someone to Love , etc.) packs her latest with jagged surprises, but the pieces fail to fall together satisfyingly. At age 12, Cassandra Madden has been in love with also 'tween Jefferson Ames, whom she meets on a...
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Jude Deveraux, Author . Atria $25.95 (375p) ISBN 978-0-7434-3720-2
Family ties, smalltown values and unexpected love in picturesque settings have made Deveraux a longtime bestselling author, so it’s no surprise she again delivers on her tried-and-true formula. Jocelyn “Joce” Minton, daughter of a...
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Jude Deveraux, Author . Atria $25.95 (376p) ISBN 978-1-4391-0794-2
The inevitable prequel to Lavender Morning places Deveraux on familiar historical romance ground as she traces the journey to America of the namesake of the fictional town of Edilean, Va. English-born Edilean Talbot is very out of place when she...
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Jude Deveraux, Author Pocket Books $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-671-01416-2
""One night I went to bed and when I woke up, there was a dead man on top of me... "" is only one of the problems faced by Fiona Burkenhalter, embattled heroine of Deveraux's latest novel. Fiona is a hotshot at Davidson Toys in New York, and she's...
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Jude Deveraux, Author Pocket Books $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-671-00203-9
Like many recent heroines of historical romance, Temperance O'Neil, turn-of-the-century New York women's rights activist, doesn't think she needs a man. The beautiful, resourceful 29-year-old has conquered politicians and audiences, even the mayor,...
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Jude Deveraux, Atria, $25.99 (374p) ISBN 978-1-4391-0797-3
Deveraux (Days of Gold) returns to Edilean, Va., to tie up some loose ends, return to familiar characters, and introduce a few new ones. Sara Shaw is happily preparing for her marriage to Greg Anders, and though her family doesn't like him very much,
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Jude Deveraux, Author, Linda Marrow, Editor Pocket Books $7.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-671-68972-8
Set in 1883 Scotland and focusing on an American intent on snaring a Scottish title through marriage, this agreeable romp spent three weeks on PW 's hardcover bestseller list. (Aug.)
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Jude Deveraux, Author, Linda Marrow, Editor Pocket Books $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-68973-5
Perennial bestseller Deveraux ( The Duchess ) involves yet another spunky heroine in a formulaic romance. After her divorce and her father's death in early 1991, 28-year-old Sam Elliott arrives in New York City to search for clues to the riddle of...
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Jude Deveraux, Author, Linda Marrow, Editor Pocket Books $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-68971-1
Mutual deception lies at the heart of this agreeable romp set in 1883 Scotland. American money (Claire Willoughby) is to snare a Scottish title (Harry, 11th duke of MacArran). But Claire's parents are bankrupt and spend Claire's dowry on their own...
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Jude Deveraux, Author, Linda Marrow, Editor Pocket Books $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-74459-5
Every cause has its champion. Now past-life therapy-the practice of curing neuroses through hypnotic regression into previous lifetimes-has its own in bestselling romance writer Deveraux, whose latest concerns a similarly bestselling romance writer...
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Jude Deveraux, Author, Linda Marrow, Editor Pocket Books $7.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-671-68976-6
Maddie Worth, blackmailed into carrying letters between abolitionist spies who hold her sister captive, resents the authoritarian presence of Captain Ring Montgomery, who helps her navigate the gold fields of Colorado. ``Deveraux fans may find the...
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Jude Deveraux, Author, Linda Marrow, Editor Atria Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-68975-9
The last thing opera singer Maddie Worth, known worldwide as LaReina, needs on her desperate trip to the gold fields of Colorado is arrogant Captain Montgomery dogging her every step. She is used to freedom, a freedom she desires more than ever now...
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Jude Deveraux, Author, Linda Marrow, Editor Pocket Books $7.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-671-64447-5
This amusing and optimistic romance champions the notion that affection, trust and a firm desire for peace can triumph in a brutal world. And while it will never warm the cockles of a feminist's heart, readers can even enjoy watching Deveraux ( The...
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