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Meet Christina
Readers become writers, and Christina Dodd has always been a reader. She reads everything, but because she loves humor, she likes romance best.
A woman wants things like world peace, a clean house, and a deep and meaningful relationship based on mutual understanding and love. A man wants things like a Craftsman router with attachments, undisputed control of the TV remote, and a red Corvette which will miraculously make his bald spot disappear. So when Christina’s first daughter was born, she told her husband she was going to quit work and write a book. It was a good time to start a new career, because how much trouble could one little infant be?
Ha! It took ten years, two children and three completed manuscripts before her first novel, CANDLE IN THE WINDOW, was published. In the thirty-two years since, her novels have been translated into 25 languages, won Romance Writers of America’s prestigious Golden Heart and RITA Awards and been called the year’s best by Library Journal and Booklist. Christina Dodd herself has been a clue in the Los Angeles Times crossword puzzle (11/18/05, # 13 Down: Romance Novelist named Christina.) Her cross-word loving mother was thrilled! With more than 15 million of her books in print, Booklist praises her, “brilliantly etched characters, polished writing, and unexpected flashes of sharp humor that are pure Dodd.”
Christina’s current historical fiction A DAUGHTER OF FAIR VERONA stars Rosie Montague, the eldest daughter of Romeo and Juliet. As Rosie says, “Yes, that Romeo and Juliet. The one that Shakespeare wrote about. No, they didn’t die in the tomb. Rumors of their deaths were greatly exaggerated. In fact, they’re alive and well and the parents of seven kids. I’m the oldest, with the emphasis on ‘old’—a certified spinster at twenty, and happy to stay that way. It’s not easy to keep your taste for romance with parents like mine. Picture it—constant monologues, passionate declarations, fighting, making up, making out . . . it’s exhausting.”
Order A DAUGHTER OF FAIR VERONA in hardcover, ebook and audiobook. Read an excerpt and laugh out loud!
Book #2 (title to be announced soon, watch your inbox!) will be published June 2025.
Christina’s next full-length stand-alone suspense is GIRL ANONYMOUS, coming March 11, 2025 in hardcover, ebook and audiobook.
“West Side Story” meets “The Godfather” in this twisty thriller…
Four year old Maarja Daire saw her mother ignite an explosion that killed a man—and herself—to save Maarja’s life. Maarja’s been on the run ever since…Now she rejects the ancient vendetta that ripped her childish world apart. She hides in plain sight as a fine arts mover, transporting priceless belongings. Work for a new client brings her to the mansion where the fateful blast occurred. There she meets Dante Arundel, scarred and brooding, the Arundels’ ruthless boss. He watches her with dark intent…but does he remember her? Will he use her to take his revenge? When she leaps into the flames to rescue his mother, he recognizes her courage…and the opportunity fate has created. What happens between them in the darkness sets their worlds on fire. Bound together by destruction, Dante and Maarja must navigate uncharted depths of betrayal and loss to create a new beginning…before the flames of the vendetta consume them.
Want to know more about Christina’s books?
Visit her printable book list sorted by genre/series/in order.
And her Books by Series page with clickable covers.
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Christina Dodd is married to a man with all his hair and no Corvette, but many Craftsman tools. They have been married since the earth’s crust cooled.
