Brazen Angel »

Elizabeth Boyle has always loved romance and now lives it each and every day by writing adventurous and passionate stories that readers from all around the world have described as "page-turners." Since her first book was published in 1996, she's won the RWA RITA^® Award and a Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award and saw six titles become USA Today bestsellers. His Mistress By Morning is her eighth book for Avon. She resides in Seattle with her husband and two small sons, or "heroes in training" as she likes to call them.

Romance readers are definitely the winners in Dell's Diamond Debut Award contest. This exciting new annual contest for unpublished romance authors (now announcing its second winner) offers the talented author who wins a publication contract, and guarantees readers a Dell first novel each year that's a real gem. This year's Diamond Debut Award Winner is Elizabeth Boyle, and her first novel, Brazen Angel is an exciting romantic adventure, packed with plots, counterplots, disguises and passion, set amid the chilling aftermath of the French Revolution.

The Brazen Angel is a beautiful adventuress, a mistress of disguise preying on London's most nefarious noblemen by luring them away from masquerade balls on moonlit nights and robbing them of prized possessions. But the Brazen Angel is no common thief. The British Foreign Office suspects she is a French revolutionary known as La Devinette, and British agent Giles Corliss, the Marquess of Trahern, has been assigned the task of bringing the beautiful thief to justice. Juggling this vital mission with his efforts to court the lady his father has chosen as his bride is no easy matter, for both his betrothed and his prey seem determined to elude him. Brazen Angel is one of the most exciting first novels I've read in years -- truly a diamond debut. We'll look forward to many more from Elizabeth Boyle.