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American novelist
Barbara Dawson Smith
Pen nameBarbara Dawson Smith,
Olivia Drake
OccupationNovelist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMichigan State University
Period1985–present
GenreRomance
Notable awardsRITA Award
Children2
Website
www.oliviadrake.com

Barbara Dawson Smith is an American writer of historical romance novels. She also writes under the pen name Olivia Drake.

Biography

Barbara Dawson Smith obtained a degree in journalism at Michigan State University. Shortly after graduating she sold her first historical romance only two weeks after sending it to a publisher and joined the Romance Writers of America in 1981.

Smith lives in Houston, Texas with her husband and their two daughters.

Awards

  • Dreamspinner: 1990 "Best Historical Romantic Suspense" from Romantic Times
  • A Glimpse of Heaven: 1995 "Best Regency Historical" from Romantic Times
  • Tempt Me Twice: 2002 RITA Award Best Short Historical

Bibliography

As Barbara Dawson Smith

Single novels

  • No Regrets (1985)
  • Stolen Heart (1988)
  • Silver Splendor (1989)
  • Dreamspinner (1990)
  • A Glimpse of Heaven (1995)
  • Never a Lady (1996)
  • Once Upon a Scandal (1997)
  • Her Secret Affair (1998)
  • Too Wicked to Love(1999)
  • Seduced by a Scoundrel (1999)
  • The Duchess Diaries (2005)
  • Countess Confidential (2006)
  • The Rogue Report {2006}

Defiant Fletcher Series

  1. Defiant Embrace (1985)
  2. Defiant Surrender (1987)

Fire Coleridge Series

  1. Fire on the Wind (1992)
  2. Fire at Midnight (1992)

Rosebuds Series

  1. Romancing the Rogue (2000)
  2. Tempt Me Twice (2001)
  3. With All My Heart (2002)
  4. One Wild Night (2003)
  5. The Wedding Night (2004)

Anthologies in collaboration

As Olivia Drake

Heiress in London Series

  1. Seducing the Heiress (2009)
  2. Never Trust a Rogue (2010)
  3. Scandal of the Year (2011)

Cinderella Sisterhood Series

  1. If the Slipper Fits (2012)
  2. Stroke of Midnight (2013)
  3. Abducted by a Prince (2014)
  4. Bella and the Beast (2015)
  5. His Wicked Wish (2016)
  6. The Scandalous Flirt (2017)

Unlikely Duchesses Series

  1. The Duke I Once Knew (2018)
  2. Forever My Duke (2019)
  3. When a Duke Loves a Governess (2021)

References and Resources

  1. Barbara Dawson Smith Archived January 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine on RT Book Reviews.
  2. Olivia Drake at FreshFiction, 2012-12-31
  3. Barbara Dawson Smith at FreshFiction, 2012-12-31
  4. "Barbara Dawson Smith". www.barbaradawsonsmith.com. Archived from the original on 13 April 2012.
  5. "WHRWA - Authors". www.whrwa.com. Archived from the original on 2007-10-06.

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