Hello! Welcome to my website. I am a romance writer, as well as a film editor, and have completed three full-length romance manuscripts that have won several awards in national writing competitions. All three revolve around a unique group of people known as gifted ones, some of whom are later transformed into immortals.
I am very pleased to announce that Darkness Dawns will arrive on shelves in late 2011, courtesy of Kensington Books (Zebra imprint), under the pseudonym Dianne Duvall. I would, therefore, like to invite you to my new website: www.DianneDuvall.com
Darkness Dawns was selected as the Best of the Best in the Indiana Golden Opportunity Writing Competition!
Darkness Dawns won First Place in the Indiana Golden Opportunity Writing Competition!
Darkness Dawns won Second Place in the Emily Writing Contest!
My first manuscript is a medieval romance with paranormal elements:
For seven years, Alyssa has been by Lord Dillon’s side, counseling him from the shadows, healing him with her hands and staving off the worst of his loneliness when his fearsome reputation keeps others at bay. Blessed, or cursed, with gifts that label her a sorceress, she is forced to conceal her youth and the love she harbors for him beneath umbral robes that lead Dillon and his people to believe she is the same aged wisewoman who served his grandsire. All is revealed, however, and passions soon flare when an enemy threatens Dillon’s life and Alyssa sacrifices everything to save him.
My second manuscript is a time travel romance:
Lord Robert, Earl of Fosterly, is attempting to identify and track down a nameless enemy who has been plaguing his lands and people with escalating violence when the most peculiar woman stumbles into his path. Small, vulnerable, yet possessed of a bold, fiery spirit and wicked sense of humor, she persists in dubbing Robert and his men mummers and believes them to be members of something called a medieval reenactment group . . . until she sees his castle and labels herself mad. It seems Bethany Bennett has come to him from the future, bringing with her laughter and chaos, swiftly winning the hearts of his people and inspiring within him a love he thought he would never experience again. Happily, she loves him, too. Yet, his hopes for a future with her are soon tested by both his tenacious enemy and Robert’s discovery of a way Bethany may return to her own time, a journey he fears she can only make alone.
My third manuscript is a contemporary paranormal / vampire romance:
Naked, staked to the drought-ridden ground with no shade to protect him from the sunlight that will kill him, immortal Roland Warbrook watches in frozen silence when, mere moments before sunrise, a petite woman creeps up behind his captors and knocks them both unconscious with a shovel. Roland is instantly captivated by Sarah and vows to keep her safe from the vampires and human minions who will now target her for coming to his aid. The loneliness of the past millennium soon melts away as she brings laughter back into his life and he rediscovers the ability to trust. Yet, when the two surrender their hearts, their happiness is threatened not just by fears that she cannot safely be transformed and share his immortality, but by a new enemy who has amassed a vicious vampire army . . . an enemy determined to execute any act, including kill Sarah, to destroy Roland.
Each manuscript is a stand-alone sequel to the previous one. Continuing in this fashion, I have already begun a fourth manuscript, another contemporary paranormal / vampire romance that is a stand-alone sequel to Darkness Dawns and will be published by Kensington.
If you would like to learn more about the awards my manuscripts have won, read excerpts or know more about me, I invite you to use the links provided on the left.
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Hello! Welcome to my website. I am a romance writer, as well as a film editor, and have completed three full-length romance manuscripts that have won several awards in national writing competitions. All three revolve around a unique group of people known as gifted ones, some of whom are later transformed into immortals.
