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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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 [...] READ MORE

 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

BEST HISTORICAL ROMANCE OF 2025! Lord Carlisle's Enticing Lure wins!

 I am so thrilled to win this coveted award!I hope you read this book, enjoy the romance and the real drama. Here is an excerpt!LORD CARLISLE’S ENTICING LURE, Book 5, Scarlett [...]

A man with a plan to acquire a merry housekeeper for Christmas! Romcom romp in MERRY BELLES!

His Merry Housekeeper  A novelette in Delightful Doings in Dudley Crescent series By Cerise DeLand Word among the fashionable is that in that marvelous London crescent, Dudley to be exact, [...] READ MORE

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