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Anne McAllister was born in California, spent formative summervacations on the beach near her home and on her grandparents' small ranch inColorado and visiting relatives in Montana. Studying the cowboys, thesurfers and the beach volleyball players, she spent long hours developingher concept of "the perfect hero." One thing she did do, early on, wasdevelop a weakness for lean, dark-haired, handsome lone-wolf type guys. Whenshe finally found one, he was in the university library where she wasworking at the time. It didn't matter. She knew a good man when she saw one.And they've now been sharing "happily ever afters" since then. She says:"Once I had a book with a cover I really loved. And my husband found out whothe artist was and bought me the illustration for my birthday. It wasentirely unexpected and I was thrilled".

Before she started writing romances, Anne taught Spanish, capped deodorantbottles copyedited textbooks, got a master's degree in theology, andghostwrote sermons. It all became grist for the fictional mill - as has thefamily history she likes to learn more about every chance she gets. Shemight have to try her hand at that historical, after all - especially nowthat she's learned more about that second great-grandfather who claims tohave shot 40 men!

Anne and her husband have four children, four dogs, and one bionic cat who,contrary to all expectations, is working on his second millennium. Quite afew years ago they moved to the Midwest, but they spend more and more timein Montana. And as Anne says, she lives there in her head most of the timeanyway. She wishes a small town like her very own Elmer, Montana, existed.She'd move there in a minute.
 

Awards: Rita (2000)  see all

Genres: Romance
 
Series
Quicksilver Season
   1. A Quicksilver Season (1985)
   2. A Chance of Rainbows (1985)
   3. Body and Soul (1987)
   4. Marry Sunshine (1988)
   5. Gifts of the Spirit (1988)
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Imagine
   1. Imagine (1990)
   2. I Thee Wed (1991)
   3. Marry-go-round (1991) (in With This Ring)
   4. MacKenzie's Baby (1992)
   5. Never Say Never (1997) (in New Years Resolution: Family)
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Code of the West
   1. Cowboys Don't Cry (1995)
   2. Cowboys Don't Quit (1995)
   3. Cowboys Don't Stay (1995)
   4. The Cowboy and the Kid (1996)
   5. Cowboy Pride (1996)
   6. The Cowboy Finds a Family (1997)
     aka A Cowboy's Tears
   7. The Cowboy Steals a Lady (1997)
   8. The Cowboy Crashes a Wedding (1998)
   9. The Stardust Cowboy (1999)
   10. Cowboy on the Run (1999)
   11. A Cowboy's Secret (2000)
   12. A Cowboy's Gift (2000)
   13. A Cowboy's Promise (2001)
   14. The Great Montana Cowboy Auction (2002)
   15. The Cowboy's Christmas Miracle (2002)
   16. A Cowboy's Pursuit (2002)
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New York! New York!
   1. Finn's Twins! (1996)
   2. Fletcher's Baby! (1997)
   3. Gibson's Girl (1999)
   4. Rhys's Redemption (2000)
   5. The Inconvenient Bride (2001)
   6. Nathan's Child (2003)
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Novels
   Dare to Trust (1985)
   Lightening Storm (1985)
   Dream Chasers (1987)
   The Marriage Trap (1987)
   Once a Hero (1989)
   Out of Bounds (1990)
   Island Interlude (1991)
   Call Up the Wind (1992)
   A Cowboy for Christmas (1992)
   Catch Me If You Can (1993)
   The Alexakis Bride (1994)
   The Playboy and the Nanny (1998)
   Savas' Defiant Mistress (2009)
   One-Night Mistress... Convenient Wife (2009)
   The Virgin's Proposition (2010)
   Hired By Her Husband (2010)
   Breaking the Greek's Rules (2012)
   The Return of Antonides (2015)
   Valentine Charms (2018)
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Collections
   My Valentine (1993) (with others)
   Marry Me Cowboy (1995) (with others)
   Valentine Affairs (1999) (with others)
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Awards
2000 Rita Award for Best Novel : The Stardust Cowboy
1997 Rita Award for Best Novel : Cowboy Pride

Anne McAllister recommends
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You Again (1996)
Peggy Nicholson
"You Again is delectable, delightfully different - in a word, magnificat!"

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