Candice Proctor

Candice Proctor
aka
Steven Graham (with Steven Harris), C S Harris



About Candice Proctor

Candice Proctor, aka C.S. Harris and Steven Graham, is the bestselling, award-winning author of more than a dozen novels including the Sebastian St. Cyr Regency mystery series written under the name C.S. Harris, the new Steven Graham thriller series, and seven historical romances. She is also the author of a nonfiction historical study of the French Revolution. Her books are available worldwide and have been translated into over twenty different languages.

Candice Proctor - Night in Eden

CANDICE PROCTOR

Once in a great while a dazzling new writer appears on the scene with a historical romance so breathtaking that it sweeps readers off their feet. Candace Proctor is such an author. Here, in her deubt novel, she brings to vivid life a part of the Regency period rarely dramatized . . . and creates sets of characters you will never forget.

NIGHT IN EDEN

Bryony Wentworth's life is shattered when she is unjustly accused and sentenced to indentured servitude in New South Wales. Broken in body--but not in spirit--she fights for light, and for her life, wanting no part of the man who would save her, Captain Hayden St. John. But the mother in her cannot turn away from Hayden's needy infant and the woman in her cannot deny her passion for the rugged, enigmatic man she is bound to serve.

Against the sweeping panorama of a harsh, gorgeous, and unforgiving land, two hungering souls learn to trust, to love, and to triumph over the danger that will shadow their lives--until destiny and desire become one.


awards
1996-97 RT Reviewers' Choice -- First Historical Romance

A TRR 5 Heart Keeper

Candice Proctor - The Bequest


"Your mother could handle men better than anyone I've ever met. She knew exactly what she was doing. You don't."

"I can learn."

"Can you?" He came at her with that lean-hipped walk she found so intimidatingly masculine. "What are you going to do time a man stalks up to you and puts his hand on you like this?"

At his touch she went rigid and sucked in an audible gasp of air.

"What if he backs you up against a wall?" He pinned her against the soft velvet of the door curtain.

"You have made your point, Mr. Hays...."

When Gabrielle Antoine arrives in the rough mining town, the convent-bred beauty is shocked by the decadence finds there--and stunned to learn she has just inherited a bordello from the mother she never knew. Worse, her mother's business partner, Jordan Hays--a rugged, cynical loner--embodies everything Gabrielle fears ... and secretly desires. Determined to transform the house of ill repute into an honorable enterprise, Gabrielle soon locks horns with an unscrupulous rival. And as Jordan seeks to shield her from this unexpected danger, Gabrielle finds herself swept away by a passion as tempting as sin itself ....

Candice Proctor - The Last Knight

Cherished for her captivating romances set in Australia and the American West, bestselling author Candice Proctor now turns her hand to medieval Europe in this superb tale of passion and redemption as one man's quest for glory becomes an unexpected crusade to save his soul . . . .

Spirited Attica d'Alerion will do anything to protect her beloved brother from danger. To warn him of a political betrayal that could lead to war, Attica disguises herself as a young courtier and bravely rides into the arms of destiny.

Damion de Jarnac is the black knight, a rogue horseman bound by no code of honor except his own blind ambition. Working for the aging King Henry, Damion scouts the hills of Brittany on a dangerous mission to expose the treachery of Philip of France. There he joins forces with a courageous lad--who turns out to be the most intriguing woman he has ever met. But to win the beautiful Attica's love, Damion must slay the demons of an unforgivable past. And to save his doomed country, he must make a deadly decision that could break his lady's noble heart ....