*LaVyrle Spencer...Morning Glory (best example of character growth I've ever read)

*Dee Henderson...Uncommon Heroes series

*Gayle Roper...Seaside Seasons series

*Laura Kinsale...Flowers from the Storm

*Julie Garwood....anything she writes!

*Patricia Cornwell...Dr. Kay Scarpetta series

*Dean Koontz...Dragon Tears (the only one of his books I can read)

*Lisa Gardner...all of her suspense novels

*Mary Stewart...an older author (Airs Above the Ground)

*Kathleen E. Woodiwiss...The Flame and the Flower

*Susan Wiggs...Halfway To Heaven

*JoAnna Lindsey...anything she writes

*Margaret Moore...her Warrior series

*Robin Hardy...The Chataine's Guardian & Stone of Help

*Jane Austin...Pride and Prejudice

*Lindsey McKenna.... Morgan's Mercenaries series

*Jude Deveraux...Anything!

*Christina Dodd...Candle in the Window

*Charlotte Bronte...Jane Eyre

*Zane Grey...Riders of the Purple Sage

*Luarel K. Hamilton.... Anita Blake  vampire novels                                 (excellent first person writing)

*Ann McCaffrey...The Ship Who Sang (my first introduction to SciFi)

*Amanda Quick...aka Jayne A. Krentz...Mystique

*Iris Johannsen...all her novels (particularly The Search which would make an excellent movie)

*Nora Roberts....Donovan Legacy series & Three Sisters Island Trilogy

*Andre Norton...Witch World series

*Piers Anthony... Incarnations of Immortality series

*Robin Schone...Gabriel's Woman (excellent study in sensual sexuality)

                                *Maggie Shayne...Twilight vampire series

*Susan Sizemore...I Hunger/Burn/Thirst For You vampire series

                                *Stephanie Meyer... Twilight series

                                *Christine Feehan...Dark and Games series (Dark Guardian--my first Dark novel and my favorite)

*Barbara Michaels...House of Many Shadows & Ammie, Come Home (the mood of both scare me to death and I still read them over and over)