![]() Catherine and the Pirate is not currently available as an ebook, unfortunately. ![]() When her brother is kidnapped, she tries to recruit occasional-pirate Derrick St. What is a line of dramatic, teen-targeted romances without a pirate? Nothing, I tell you! (Particularly for someone whose first romance was Gentle Rogue…) Privileged Catherine Markham comes from a wealthy Boston family and is bored to tears by her stifled upbringing. Though a number of the Avon True Romance novels have been re-released as ebooks over the years, most are out-of-print, and the series itself seems to have faded from the collective Romancelandia memory.īut even though the line is dead, I say long live Avon True Romance! There may have only been 12 novels, but they made for a lot of happy readers.Ĭatherine and the Pirate by Karen Hawkins ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, the line was short-lived and ultimately produced only 12 novels. Avon brought in some amazing authors to write for this line-Beverly Jenkins, Lorraine Heath, Meg Cabot, etc.-kept the novels shorter and the locales romantic, dressed each book up with a truly gorgeous cover, and marketed them to their new pre-teen/teen audience. Basically, it was a line of sweet but still slightly steamy romances targeted at those of us who had been surreptitiously (or less surreptitiously) stealing romance novels from our mothers for years. ![]() Back in 2002/’03, Avon introduced a series of novels called Avon True Romance, intended to being Avon romances to new, younger audiences. ![]()
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