Marsha Canham


Marsha Canham is a Canadian writer of historical romance novels since 1984. She has won two Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Awards, as well as multiple awards for individual books including Best Historical of the Year, Best Medieval of the Year, Best book of the Year, Storyteller of the Year, Best Swashbuckler of the Year.

Biography

Canham was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where she resides, to a policeman and a homemaker. Marsha has one son and two grandchildren. Her sister is Canadian politician Carolyn Parrish, elected Mayor of Mississauga in 2024.
In 1984, Marsha published her first historical romance, titled China Rose, and has seventeen such novels in print, including one contemporary romance. She is best known for her award-winning romance trilogies, one set in Scotland: The Pride of Lions, The Blood of Roses, and Midnight Honor. The other is set in medieval England and deals with her own interpretation of the Robin Hood legend: Through a Dark Mist, In the Shadow of Midnight, and The Last Arrow. She is currently working on the fourth book of her pirate wolf saga that began with Across A Moonlit Sea ''The Iron Rose and The Following Sea.
She has won two Romantic Times'' Lifetime Achievement Awards. plus multiple individual awards including being listed as "One of the seven best mass market fiction books of the year" by Publishers Weekly for The Iron Rose.

As Marsha Canham

Single novels

  1. The Pride of Lions, 1988
  2. The Blood of Roses, 1989
  3. Midnight Honor, 2001

    Robin Hood series

  4. Through a Dark Mist, 1991
  5. In the Shadow of Midnight, 1994
  6. The Last Arrow, 1997
  7. My Forever Love, 2003

    Dante Pirates series

  8. Across a Moonlit Sea, 1996
  9. The Iron Rose, 2003
  10. The Following Sea, 2012
  11. The Far Horizon, 2017
  12. ’’The Black Wind’’, 2025

    Short stories and novellas

  • What the Heart Sees, 2011

    As Marsha M. Canham

Single novels

  • Dark and Dangerous, 1992