Jude Deveraux


Jude Deveraux is an American author of historical romances. Deveraux has written more than 40 novels, many of which have been on The [New York Times Best Seller list|The New York Times Best Seller list], including such titles as A Knight in Shining Armor and Remembrance; she has sold in excess of 50 million copies as of 2016. Deveraux appeared as herself in the 1987 romance novelist documentary Where the Heart Roams.

Literary work

Known for her historical romances with storylines centered on strong, capable heroines, Deveraux has written stories set in several time periods, including post-Revolutionary America, nineteenth century Colorado, and nineteenth century New Mexico. Many of her books follow the Montgomery and Taggert families and contain recurring characters.
She has written several time-travel romances, and her later novels have had a contemporary setting. Many of her more recent books feature paranormal storylines.
In 2009, she was one of four authors who produced works for the debut of Vook, a company which produces "video books" by combining text, video and internet links into a single experience.
Deveraux wrote A Girl From Summer Hill, a contemporary reimagining of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in 2016.

Personal life

Deveraux was born in Fairdale, Kentucky, United States. She was married to Richard Sides from 1967 to 1969. In the late 1960s, she met Claude White, whom she began living with in 1970. They married in 1987 and divorced in 1991. In 1991, while on a tour of Egypt with White, she met Mohammed Montassir. They eventually married and had a son together, named Sam Alexander Montassir. Their son died in 2005, at the age of eight, when he was hit by a truck near their home in North Carolina.

Association with Rose Marks

In 1991, Deveraux first met psychic Rose Marks, whom she knew as "Joyce Michael". She initially visited Marks for a psychic reading, due to problems with her marriage to White and with infertility. The relationship strengthened after her son's death, and Marks isolated Deveraux from her friends and family. Marks offered her the ability to continue to contact her son as well as to save him from being "caught between heaven and hell".
Over the course of 17 years, Marks extracted between 17 and 20 million dollars from Deveraux, leaving her with almost no money despite her lucrative writing career. Marks told Deveraux as well as other victims that their money and valuables were cursed by malign influence and needed to be given to her for "cleansing rituals" and that they would be returned; yet the items never were returned. She was found guilty of fraud in a trial in 2013, and lost an appeal of her sentence in 2016.

The Montgomery/Taggert Family

  • Chronological order
  1. The Black Lyon
  2. The Maiden
  3. The Velvet Promise
  4. Highland Velvet
  5. Velvet Song
  6. Velvet Angel
  7. The Heiress
  8. The Raider
  9. Mountain Laurel
  10. Eternity
  11. The Duchess
  12. Twin of Fire
  13. Twin of Ice
  14. The Temptress
  15. Wishes
  16. The Awakening
  17. "The Invitation" from The Invitation
  18. The Princess
  19. A Knight in Shining Armor
  20. Sweet Liar
  21. "Matchmakers" from The Invitation
  22. "Change of Heart" from Holiday of Love
  23. "Just Curious" from A Gift of Love
  24. High Tide
  25. Holly
  26. Someone to Love
  27. Met Her Match

Forever Trilogy (Montgomery/Taggert)

  1. Forever... A Novel of Good and Evil
  2. Forever and Always
  3. Always

Nantucket Brides Trilogy (Montgomery/Taggert)

  1. True Love
  2. For All Time
  3. Ever After

The James River series

  • Chronological order
  1. Sweetbriar
  2. Counterfeit Lady
  3. Lost Lady
  4. River Lady

The Peregrine Family

  • The Taming
  • The Conquest

The Legend series

The Summerhouse series

  1. The Summerhouse
  2. Return to Summerhouse
  3. ''As You Wish''

The Endenton series

  1. First Impressions
  2. ''Carolina Isle''

The Edilean series

  • Chronological order
  1. Days of Gold
  2. The Scent of Jasmine
  3. Promises VOOK
  4. Lavender Morning
  5. Scarlet Nights
  6. Heartwishes
  7. Change of Heart

The Moonlight Trilogy

  • This trilogy takes place in Edilean, VA. It is not part of the original sequence but contains characters that appeared within it.
  1. Moonlight in the Morning
  2. Stranger in the Moonlight
  3. Moonlight Masquerade

Summer Hill Novels

  1. The Girl from Summer Hill
  2. ''Met Her Match''

Medlar Mysteries

  1. A Willing Murder
  2. A Justified Murder
  3. A Forgotten Murder
  4. A Relative Murder
  5. ''An Unfinished Murder''

Providence Falls (with Tara Sheets)

  1. Chance of a Lifetime
  2. An Impossible Promise
  3. ''Thief of Fate''

Blue Swan series

  1. Order of Swans
  2. Order of Royals
  3. ''Order of the Beast''

Stand alones

  • The Enchanted Land
  • Casa Grande
  • "A Perfect Arrangement" from The Invitation
  • Remembrance
  • An Angel for Emily
  • The Blessing
  • Temptation
  • "Unfinished Business" from A Season in the Highlands
  • The Mulberry Tree
  • Wild Orchids
  • Secrets
  • Meant to Be
  • ''My Heart Will Find You''

Anthologies

  • A Holiday of Love
  • A Gift of Love
  • Upon a Midnight Clear
  • Simple Gifts
  • ''A Season in the Highlands''