The Wolf and the Dove by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

Woodiwiss is the founding mother of the historical romance genre,' says Carrie Feron, vice president/editorial director of William Morrow and Avon Books, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers. The Flame and the Flower revolutionized mainstream publishing, featuring an epic historical romance with a strong heroine and impassioned sex scenes. Woodiwiss is credited with the invention of the modern historical romance novel: in 1972, she released The Flame and the Flower, an instant New York Times bestseller, creating literary precedent.

She wrote her first book in longhand while living at a military outpost in Japan. Air Force Second Lieutenant Ross Woodiwiss at a dance, and they married the following year. She long relished creating original narratives, and by age six was telling herself stories at night to help herself fall asleep. Woodiwiss was the youngest of eight siblings. Her attorney, William Messerlie, said that she died after a long illness.īorn on Jin Alexandria, Louisiana, Mrs. Woodiwiss, creator of the modern historical romance, died Jin Minnesota. For now, only love can set them both free - a tender devotion forged in the flames of war and hatred that threatens their separate loyalties.and their lives.(1939 - 2007) Kathleen E. And, ultimately, it is the powerful Wolf himself who is vanquished - undone by a heart that aches for his courageous and sensuous captive. And she plots her revenge - even as she submits to her enemy's passionate will.īut Aislinn is unprepared for the fire her daring foe awakens in her.

A princess of Saxon blood, Aislinn burns with hatred for the mighty Norman knight who has destroyed her home. But proud and beautiful Aislinn will never grovel before the fearsome invader. Like a swift and bitter wind, Wulfgar, 'the Iron Wolf of Normandy,' sweeps down from the North at the head of an invincible army to claim the land and people of Darkenwald in the name of William, the Conqueror King. A savage warrior schooled in the art of conquest.The noble princess he could never tame.A stirring tale of passions unleashed and love unchained from the incomparable storyteller Kathleen E.

The Wolf and the Dove by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss