Who is Kathleen Woodiwiss

1: She wrote the first historical romance. Stating a whole new style of romance writing.

2: She always has strong female characters who always manage to over come obstacles set in their way.

3: Steamy love scenes without being smutty. These are books you could let your teenage daughter read.

This is a continuing series of books about various members of the Birmingham Family.
From sea captians to plantation owners the men in these books are handsom, ruggid and seen to have a knack for getting into trouble.

What I love about these books is just when you think you have it figured out and you know how it will end....BANG! Big left turn and the book goes off in a completely different direction.

Back in 1987 I was working in an all female company. One of my coworkers had brought the book Ashes in the Wind, by Kathleen Woodiwise to read during her lunch hour. She was telling us how good the book was and soon the book was ripped in two. She kept the half she had not read yet and let us read the part she was done with. Soon the book was divided again as different people were reading at different speeds. Our whole office was caught up in the book. On our breaks we would go hunting for who had the next section of the book so we could read it. It was great fun. Eventually we all started buying our own books. I now own all her books in hard back and in paperback. I have read and reread them many times.

Everlasting the newest book by Woodiwiss was released in Oct 2007

There are currently more than 26.7 million copies of Woodiwiss's novels in print.

Sadly this will be her last book.

Kathleen Woodiwiss passed away in July of 07, from cancer. She was 68.

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