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Recognizes Mega Multi-Book Author
Margaret Tanner
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About Author:
Margaret Tanner belongs to the Romance Writers of Australia, Romantic Novelists Assoc. UK, the Melbourne Romance Writers Group and EPIC.
She has won or been commended in competitions on several occasions. In February 2008, she won the Australian Author of the Year Award from aussieauthors.com. Her unpublished manuscript Storm Girl has made it into the semi-finals in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest.
Her World War 1 novel, Devil’s Ridge, from Whiskeycreek Press, finished in the top thirty in the 2007 Preditors and Editors poll.
She has had numerous short stories published over the years, but writing Historical romance novels is her passion. Her favourite historical period is the 1st World War. Not only has she painstakingly researched this era, but was fortunate enough to make a poignant pilgrimage to the battlefields of Gallipoli (in Turkey), France and Belgium.
She is married with three grown up sons, and one grand-daughter. Margaret lives in Australia. She has recently reduced her working hours as a medical typist, to concentrate on writing.
Her two publishers are:
Whiskeycreek Press
The Wild Rose Press
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Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award
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Introduction to Margaret Tanner’s Books:
Retrace the footsteps of your pioneering ancestors and shroud yourself in an historical mantle.
Read about rugged, hot blooded frontier men and the resourceful, passionate women who tamed them.
Feel for the tortured heroes as they try to forget the blood soaked battlefields of France and Belgium. Weep and rejoice with the staunch, beautiful heroines who save them.
Margaret Tanner
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| Cardinal Sin
by Margaret Tanner
Set in Australia during the 1960’s
"One bloody night," Bryce Harrington thought savagely, "and this happens." He had committed the cardinal sin of getting his secretary pregnant, and now he had to pay the price—offer marriage. Caroline Dennison had committed the cardinal sin of falling in love with her boss. While her brother risks his life in the jungles of Vietnam, and her friend, a draft dodger, is on the run from the authorities and needs her help, Caroline has another desperate battle on her hands, a battle to win Bryce’s love.
Print Details:
Paperback: 196 pages
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press (August 15, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1601542887
ISBN-13: 978-1601542885
Genre: Romance/ Sensual
Print Price: $10.99
Print Purchase Link:
http://www.amazon.com/Cardinal-Sin-Margaret-Tanner/dp/1601542887/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244487162&sr=1-4
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| Devil's Ridge
by Margaret Tanner
Set during the 1st World War.
By the time Ross Calvert discovers Harry Martin is in fact Harriet Martin she has fallen in love with him. Realizing she has failed in her final effort to protect her shell-shocked brother, she puts a desperate proposition to Ross. Marry her and she will give him an heir.
Ross accepts. However, he is tormented by the betrayal of his former fiancée Virginia. On his honeymoon he meets her again and is still infatuated. With the army recalling him to the Western Front, he faces a terrible dilemma, taste Virginia’s passion before he heads to the trenches of France, or keep his marriage vows to Harry.
With the spectre of war hanging over them, there are even bigger obstacles for Ross and Harry. Ross returns to the trenches, and a man seeking wealth at any cost, endangers Harry’s life in a way she had never imagined possible.
Print Details:
Paperback
Publisher: Whiskey Creek Press (2007)
ISBN-10: 1593747519
ISBN-13: 978-1593747510
Genre: Romance/Historical
Amazon Print Price: $17.95
Whiskey Creek Press Print Price: $14.95
Print Purchase Links:
http://www.amazon.com/Devils-Ridge-Margaret-Tanner/dp/1593747519/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244487162&sr=1-5
http://www.whiskeycreekpress.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=536
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| Holly And The Millionaire
by Margaret Tanner
Justin Devereux’s girlfriend has dumped him. Worse still, she has swindled him out of millions of dollars. He befriends Holly Kirwan whose soldier husband has been killed in Iraq. Holly flees to Australia to keep her baby out of the clutches of her ruthless in-laws.
When Holly finally moves into Justin’s apartment she is racked with guilt. How can she fall in love with another man when her husband is barely cold in his grave? Justin in the meantime, is fighting a desperate battle of his own for emotional survival. He thought safe, commitment free sex was all he ever wanted, but after he has driven Holly away, he realises he can’t live without her.
Print Details:
Paperback
215 Pages
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Language: English
ISBN-10: 160154216X
ISBN-13: 978-1601542168
Release Date: 28th March 2008
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Print Price: $10.99
Print Purchase Link:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Margaret%20Tanner
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| Savage Utopia
by Margaret Tanner
Set in Australia in the 1830’s
On board a convict ship taking them to the penal colony of Australia, Maryanne Watson and Jake Smith meet and fall in love, but Jake hides a terrible secret that will take him to the gallows if it ever comes out.
On arrival in Sydney the lovers are separated.
Maryanne is sent to work for the lecherous Captain Fitzhugh. After he attacks her she flees into the wilderness and eventually meets up with Jake who has escaped from a chain gang.
They set up home in a hidden valley and Maryanne falls pregnant. Will Jake come out of hiding to protect his fledgling family?
And how can love triumph over such crushing odds?
Print Details:
Paperback: 210 pages
Publisher: Whiskey Creek Press
Release Date: February 2008
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1603130470
ISBN-13: 978-1603130479
Genre: Historical Romance
Print Price: $16.95
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| Shattered Dreams
by Margaret Tanner
Three young soldiers leave a shattering legacy as they pass through Lauren Cunningham's life. Danny, her childhood sweetheart, is killed in action in 1915. Captain Blair Sinclair returns from the war with amnesia and believes Lauren to be his fiancée. Dick McKinlay is a shell-shocked soldier who is prepared to marry Lauren to hide a terrible secret.
Even if Blair can forgive Lauren for being an impostor, will she always be haunted by the ghost of her lost first love and tainted by the scandal surrounding her marriage to Dick?
Print Book Details:
Paperback
196 pages
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
September 5, 2008
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1601543042
ISBN-13: 978-1601543042
Genre: Historical Romance
Print Book Price: $10.99
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| Stolen Birthright
by Margaret Tanner
Set in Australia during the 1850s
Sequel to Savage Utopia
Georgina, a wild colonial girl is, brought up by O’Rourke, a rough and ready Irishman, who she believes is her uncle.
While helping the bushranger, Johnny Dawson, escape from prison she meets and falls in love with a dashing young English aristocrat, Marcus Lindquist.
When Johnny Dawson is ambushed and killed, Marcus finally learns the secret of what has bound him to Georgina. Johnny is her brother, not her lover as he had jealously supposed, but even darker secrets from the past overshadow their love.
How can an English nobleman marry the daughter of convicts?
Meanwhile, twelve thousand miles across the sea, Marcus’ Godfather, is plotting Georgina’s death, to keep his dark secrets from ever seeing the light of day.
Print Book Details:
Trade paperback ISBN: 978-1-60313-355-5
Whiskeycreek Press
Release date: August 2008
Genre: Historical Romance
Printed Book Price: $14.95
Printed Book Purchase Link:
http://www.whiskeycreekpress.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=665&zenid=92542747e20305
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| The Trouble With Playboys
by Margaret Tanner
In 1938, a wealthy Englishman, Paul Ashfield travels to Australia in search of the birth-mother he thinks deserted him. He meets and falls in love with Daphne Clarke. Upon meeting her parents, Paul is horrified by the possibility that they have the same mother. He departs the scene quickly, believing he has slept with his sister.
Amidst the turmoil of WW2, Paul and Daphne meet again in Singapore, where they discover the truth – they are not siblings. They marry as the Japanese pour into Malaya and Singapore teeters on the brink of invasion. In the chaotic aftermath, each believes the other has died during the bombing. Heartbroken, Paul returns home to England and agrees to an arranged marriage.
After a daring escape from Singapore, Daphne finally reaches England, only to find out that Paul is about to wed another woman.
Print Details:
Paperback: 228 pages
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
March 26, 2009
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1601544766
ISBN-13: 978-1601544766
Genre: Historical Romance Fiction
Print Price: $11.99
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Pending Release On February 26, 2019 From Wild Rose Press!
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Special Note To Australian Book Buyers
Please contact me for information on purchasing my books in Australia.
All my print books cost $19.95 (Australian dollars) which includes postage in Australia, and $18.00 (Australian dollars) plus postage for overseas.
I am happy to autograph my book.
mjljtanner@hotmail.com
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Special Note To My Readers!
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