Meet Cerise

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Cerise DeLand is the USA Today Bestselling Author who believes love brings rich rewards from a life lived with honesty, valor—and a functioning funnybone.

Known for her poetic elegance and accuracy of detail, she’s won awards for many of the more than 70 novels she’s written.

Her work has been nearly life-long! First published in 1991 by Kensington, then Pocket Books, St. Martin’s Press and independent presses, she is now published by Dragonblade Publishing. Plus her books have been monthly selections of the Doubleday Book Club and the Mystery Guild.

To research, she’s dived into the oldest texts and dustiest library shelves. She travels abroad taking good walking shoes, big notebooks, trusty pens and a camera! She visits chateaux and country homes she loves to people with her own imaginary characters.

And at home every day? She cooks. (Every night.) Never dusts. (That can be a problem.) She goes swimming or pumps iron once a week and tries (desperately) to grow vegetables in her arid backyard in south Texas!

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Have you heard the one about the butler who saves his very ditsy employer? He and she have a new look!

Many years on the shelf often mean a new look for a book is a great idea! Here for my romcom series, DELIGHTFUL DOINGS IN DUDLEY CRESCENT, are the first [...] READ MORE

Killing historical romance? Who? and why?

 The announcement that Harlequin Historical Romance is ending this line is another blow to the romance industry. Just as mass market books are dying, so too is this line that [...] READ MORE

Excerpt, HIS MERRY HOUSEKEEPER, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Copyright Cerise DeLand, 2025.Tio’s bedroom was very warm when Winn stirred. Realizing she could not sit up and that she was in Bettington’s [...]

 Napoleon ordered an invasion of England’s southern coast in the summer of 1805. Preparing for air, land and sea assault, he had all kinds of weaponry made. Hot air balloons, [...] READ MORE

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