Come Love a Stranger

About the Author

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss wrote the very first historical romance novel in 1972-The Flame and the Flower created a genre and made Ms. Woodiwiss one of the world’s most popular writers, with 36 million books in print. In celebration of Ms. Woodiwiss’s new novel, The Retuctant Suitor (2003), HarperCollins is publishing Ms. Woodiwiss’s classic backlist, including the complete Birmingham Family Saga: The Flame and the Flower, The Elusive Flame; A Season Beyond a Kiss. Also available are Ms. Woodiwiss’s Ashes in the Wind; Come Love a Stranger; Forever in Your Embrace; Petals on the River, A Rose in Winter; Shanna; So Worthy My Love; The Wolf and the Dove.

By Kathleen E. WoodiwissThe Birmingham Family Saga:

The Flame and the Flower

The Elusive Flame

A Season Beyond a Kiss

And also:

Ashes in the Wind

Come Love a Stranger

Forever in Your Embrace

Married at Midnight

Petals on the River

A Rose in Winter

Shanna

So Worthy My Love

The Wolf and the Dove

The Reluctant Suitor

Praise New York Times

Bestselling Author

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

“A LEGEND…THE QUEEN OF

HISTORICAL ROMANCE.”

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“A PHENOMENON”

The New York Times

“WOODIWISS REIGNS!”

Life

“THE FIRST LADY OF THE GENRE.”

Publishers Weekly

“LIVE AND BREATHE THE WORLD

KATHLEEN E. WOODIWISS CREATES.”

Houston Chronicle

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

COME LOVE A STRANGER. Copyright © 1984 by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Epub edition November 2003 eISBN 9780061762581

First Avon Books mass market printing: January 1986

First Avon Books trade printing: November 1984

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