ROME, MARGARET

Margaret Rome books in order

Margaret Rome was a British romance novelist who published more than 30 Mills & Boon novels from 1968 into the 1980s.

Books: 27
Editions tracked: 32
First editions: 0

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Margaret Rome wrote 27 books we track between 1968 and 1985; in publication order they begin with The Marriage of Caroline Lindsay (1968).

About Margaret Rome

Margaret Rome was a British romance novelist who wrote more than 30 novels for Mills & Boon from 1968 into the 1980s, many of them reissued in North America by Harlequin.

Little is recorded about her life: reference listings give her nationality as British and her contact address as care of Mills & Boon in Richmond, Surrey, and no birth or death dates are published in the sources we checked. Her first novels, The Lottery for Matthew Devlin and The Marriage of Caroline Lindsay, appeared from Mills & Boon in 1968, followed in 1969 by A Chance to Win and Flower of the Marsh. A Chance to Win became Harlequin Romance no. 1307 in June 1969.

She wrote steadily through the 1970s and early 1980s, in books such as Man of Fire and Bird of Paradise (1970), Chateau of Flowers (1971), Bride of the Rif (1972), Island of Pearls and The Bartered Bride (1973), Lion of Venice (1977), Isle of Calypso (1979), and Second-Best Bride, King of Kielder and Castle in Spain (1981). The Romance Wiki counts 26 of her books in the Harlequin Romance line and eight in Harlequin Presents, plus one Mills & Boon Masquerade historical, Maid of the Border (1979). The Writers Directory lists her final title as Pagan Gold and dates it 1989, although the Romance Wiki records its Harlequin Romance edition in April 1986.

For collectors. Her books exist in Mills & Boon editions, Harlequin reprints and large print versions (Ulverscroft issued Chateau of Flowers). The earliest titles, The Lottery for Matthew Devlin and The Marriage of Caroline Lindsay (1968), are her first books, and the 1979 Masquerade title is the odd one out in her output.

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Rapture of the Deep

Margaret Rome · first published 1982

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Valley Of Gentians

Margaret Rome · first published 1982

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Valley of the Gentians

Margaret Rome · first published 1982

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Pagan Gold

Margaret Rome · first published 1985

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What order should I read Margaret Rome's books in?

In publication order they begin with The Marriage of Caroline Lindsay (1968), then Chateau of Flowers (1971) and Bride of the Rif (1972). Books in a series are listed in series order on this page.

What was Margaret Rome's first book?

The earliest book we list is The Marriage of Caroline Lindsay, first published in 1968.

How many Margaret Rome books does MyVolumes track?

We track 27 books by Margaret Rome across 32 editions.

Sources

Where these facts come from

Rome, Margaret, Encyclopedia.com (from Writers Directory 2005) (encyclopedia.com)
Margaret Rome, Romance Wiki (University of Birmingham), 2012 (romancewiki.bham.ac.uk)
Open Library search: Margaret Rome (OL1006974A), oldest first, Open Library (openlibrary.org)

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