Barbara Daly (born November 13,1939) is an American

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. She won the

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's RITA Award in 2002 for Best Short Contemporary Romance for her novel ''A Long Hot Christmas''. She has also been twice nominated by ''Romantic Times'' for Reviewers' Choice Awards, for ''A Long Hot Christmas'' and ''Too Hot to Handle''. ''Romantic Times'' described her

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Duets novel ''Are You For Real'' as "fast-paced, fresh and funny".

Bibliography

Novels

*''Three for the Road'' (1999) *''Home Improvement'' (1999) *''A Long Hot Christmas'' (2001) *''Too Hot to Handle'' (2002) *''Mistletoe Over Manhattan'' (2003) *''When the Lights Go Out...'' (2004) *''Kiss and Run'' (2005)

Omnibus

*''Great Genes! / Make Me Over'' (1999) (with Meg Lacy) *''The Wrong Mr Right / Never Say Never!'' (2000) (with Tina Wainscott) *''You Call This Romance? / Are You for Real?'' (2002) *''Mistletoe Over Manhattan / A Sure Thing'' (2003) (with Jacquie D'Alessandro) *''When the Lights Go Out / Her Private Dancer'' (2004) (with Cami Dalton) *''To the Max / Kiss and Run'' (2005) (with Darlene Gardner) *''Dare / Kiss and Run'' (2006) (with Cara Summers)

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* 1939 births Living people American romantic fiction writers RITA Award winners American women novelists American women romantic fiction writers 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women {{US-novelist-1930s-stub