The story introduces readers to Xanthia Neville and her brother Kieran as they arrive in London from the West Indies a place where they were raised. Liz Carlyle begins her trilogy Neville Family & Friends with a somewhat uneven novel regarding momentum, but one that every romance genre fans will ultimately enjoy due to the exciting cast- both old and new.

Several of Liz Carlyle’s books have been listed in USA Today Bestsellers. In 2006 she won Romance Writers of America RITA Award for her novel, The Devil to Pay. In 1999 she won the Romantic Times Reviewers Award for My False Heart and also nominated for Romantic Times Career Achievement Award. Liz Carlyle has five times been nominated for Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Awards. In 2003, Liz contributed to the anthology, Big Guns marking her first entry into contemporary romance. In 1998, the publishing house bought two of her books and published the first, My False Heart in 1999. Even though her first writing work did not sell, Pocket Books publishers were interested in seeing more of the authors work. Liz Carlyle began writing in December 1996 and finished her first novel within two months.

The author spent most of her career working in labor relations and human resources in the automotive and chemical industries. Liz is married to Edward Carlyle and has two stepchildren. She was born in Suffolk, Virginia and won Scripps Howard writing scholarship which enabled her to be major in journalism in college. Liz Carlyle is the pseudonym used by an American author of historical romance novels, Susan Tatum Woodhouse.

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