Anne Mather

Mildred Grieveson was born on 10 October 1946 in England. She always wanted to write, and for years she wrote for her own pleasure. She had written all through her infant and junior years and on into her teens, the stories changing from children's adventures to torrid gypsy passions. Her mother used to gather these up from time to time, when her bedroom became too untidy, and disposed of these manuscripts.[1]

Mildred married very young and became a housewife. Her husband suggested that she ought to send one of her stories to a publisher, but she had never finished one of her stories. Published at 19, she was newly married, and her daughter was just a baby, when she juggled her household chores and scribbled away in exercise books every chance she got.[2] Now, she has two adult children, a son and a daughter, and two grandchildren, Abigail and Ben.[1]

With her husband's encouragement, she finally finished a manuscript, Caroline. When she was only 19, in 1965, Mills & Boon published Caroline, and this became her first published book, signed under the pseudonym Anne Mather.[1]

"In fact her first five books were first published in hardback by Robert Hale Ltd, London although Mills & Boon later published these in paperback.

The first novel to be issued entirely through M&B was Dangerous Enchantment in May 1969. (ref. Fantastic Fiction website)."

In 1973, she became a launch author for the new Harlequin Presents line of category romance novels. Harlequin Presents books were more sensual than the previous line, Harlequin Romance, under which Anne Mather had been published. She was chosen to be a launch author because she, along with Violet Winspear and Anne Hampson were the most popular and prolific of Harlequin's authors.[3]

Her novel, Leopard in the Snow (1974), was developed into a 1978 movie.

• The Millionaire's Virgin (2000)
• All the Fire (1971) = His Virgin Mistress (2002) These are not the same book, although the Male main character in both books have the same first & last name, and the female main character in both books have the same first name.

• All Night Long (2000)
• Sinful Truths (2003)
• The Forbidden Mistress (2004)
• Savage Awakening (2005)

• The Spaniard's Seduction (2002)
• Alejandro's Revenge (2003)
• Mendez's Mistress (2008)

• Pacific Passions (2002) (with Robyn Donald)
• Foreign Affairs (2004) (with Helen Bianchin and Michelle Reid)
• In the Italian's Bed (2004)
• The Rodrigues Pregnancy (2004)
• Sleeping with a Stranger (2005)
• The Virgin's Seduction (2006)

• Jack Riordan's Baby (2006)

• Best of Anne Mather: Fallen Angel; Follow Thy Desire (1983)
• The Best of Anne Mather: Sandstorm; Images of Love (1984)
• Anne Mather Collection: Rich as Sin; Tidewater Seduction; Snowfire (1996)
• Rich as sin; Snowfire; Tidewater seduction (2002)
• Strange Intimacy / Treacherous Longings (2004)
• Relative Sins / Wicked Caprice (2005)
• Spaniard's Seduction / Rich Man's Touch (2008)

• Masquerade by Anne Mather / Rata Flowers Are Red by Mary Moore (author) / Unknown Mr. Brown by Sara Seale (1977)
• A Match for Mom (1997) (Guilty by Anne Mather / A man for mon Linda Randall Wisdom / The fix-it man by Vicki Lewis Thompson)
• Seduction Guaranteed (2000) (with Michelle Reid and Miranda Lee)
• Wed Again! (2001) (They're Wed Again! by Penny Jordan / Anne Mather / The Man She'll Marry by Carole Mortimer)
• Exotic Heat (2002) (Anne Mather, Sandra Field and Sharon Kendrick)
• Mediterranean Playboys (2004) (Michelle Reid, Anne Mather and Jane Porter)
• The Tycoon's Love Child (2005) (Jacqueline Baird, Anne Mather and Robyn Donald)
• Dark Seductions (2005) (Raw Silk by Anne Mather / Dark Apollo by Sara Craven / Dark Fire by Robyn Donald)
• More Than a Mistress (2006) (Claiming His Mistress by Emma Darcy / His Virgin Mistress by Anne Mather / Mistress On His Terms by Catherine Spencer)
• Latin Lovers (2006) (Anne Mather, Kay Thorpe and Michelle Reid)
• The Sweetest Revenge (2007) (Anne Mather, Sara Wood and Susan Stephens)
• Raw Silk / Dark Apollo / Dark Fire (2008) (with Sara Craven and Robyn Donald)
• Pacific Heat / Surrender to Seduction (2008) (with Robyn Donald)

(Books reedited as Anne Mather)

• Dark Venetian (1969/11)