Carla Kelly


Carla Sue Kelly is an American writer in the Regency romance genre. She is the author of over forty books and short stories.
Kelly is known for what she calls "dukeless" regencies, her stories often revolve around ordinary people solving their own problems. She also has a strong interest in the American West, which is reflected in her earliest published works and in her non-fiction. Since 2011, Kelly, who has a Mormon background, has written five historical romance novels that focus on the lives of young Mormon women: Borrowed Light, Enduring Light, My Loving Vigil Keeping, Safe Passage, and One Step Enough.
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Biography

Kelly was born in 1947 and is the daughter of a Navy officer. She graduated from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah where she studied Latin American history. She completed a master's degree at the University of Louisiana-Monroe, in American history, with a focus on the Civil War and Indian Wars. Kelly lives in Idaho Falls, Idaho with her husband.

Writing career

Kelly began writing Regency Romances because of her interest in the Napoleonic Wars. A major theme in her books is how war touches the lives of ordinary people.
Kelly has also written a series of short stories about the men, women and children of Fort Laramie during the Indian Wars era of American history. In 2003 her entire collection of Indian War stories was re-published in Here's to the Ladies: Stories from the Frontier Army. Two of these stories A Season for Heroes and Kathleen Flaherty's Long Winter were awarded Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America.

Benedict Nesbitt series

Libby's London Merchant
  • ''One Good Turn''

Channel Fleet trilogy

Marrying the Captain The Surgeon's Lady
  • ''Marrying the Royal Marine''

Borrowed Light series

Borrowed Light
  • ''Enduring Light''

Spanish Brand series

Double Cross Marco and the Devil's Bargain Paloma and the Horse Traders
  • ''The Star in the Meadow''

Stand-alone novels

Daughter of Fortune Summer Campaign Miss Chartley's Guided Tour Marian's Christmas Wish Mrs. McVinnie's London Season Miss Grimsley's Oxford Career Miss Billings Treads the Boards Miss Whittier Makes a List Mrs. Drew Plays Her Hand Reforming Lord Ragsdale The Lady's Companion With This Ring Miss Milton Speaks Her Mind The Wedding Journey Beau Crusoe The Admiral's Penniless Bride Coming Home for Christmas Marriage of Mercy My Loving Vigil Keeping Her Hesitant Heart Safe Passage The Wedding Ring Quest Softly Falling Doing No Harm Courting Carrie in Wonderland The Unlikely Master Genius
  • ''One Step Enough''

Short stories

This list excludes articles written in her capacity of journalist or feature writer for various newspapers and magazines, primarily in North Dakota.A Season for Heroes. FAR West Magazine, 1978Kathleen Flaherty's Long Winter. FAR West Magazine, 1981Something New in Wedding Bouquet. Signet, 1996Make a Joyful Noise in A Regency Christmas Carol. Signet, 1997The Christmas Ornament in A Regency Christmas. Signet, 1998An Object of Charity in A Regency Christmas Present. Signet, 1999The Background Man in The Grand Hotel. Signet, 2000The Three Kings in The Regency Christmas II. Signet, 2000The Buffalo Carcass on the Company Sink: Sanitation at a Frontier Army Fort. North Dakota History: Journal of the Northern Plains. Vol. 69, 2002The Light Within in A Regency Valentine II. Signet, 2002No Room at the Inn in The Regency Christmas IX. Signet, 2002Here's to the Ladies: Stories of the Frontier Army. Texas Christian University Press, 2003Let Nothing You Dismay in Regency Christmas Wishes. Signet, 2003'To Restore these Children': Fort Totten's Preventorium, 1935–1940. Northern Great Plains History Conference A Hasty Marriage in Wedding Belles. Signet, 2004On the Upper Missouri: The Journal of Rudolph Friedrich Kurz, 1851–1852. University of Oklahoma Press, 2005 An Object of Charity in A Homespun Regency Christmas. Signet, 2008 Note: re-issue of short story published originally in A Regency Christmas Present. Signet, 1999
  • "Christmas Promise" in "A Regency Christmas." Harlequin, October 2009Carla Kelly's Christmas Collection, October 2013In Love and War, November 2013Season's Regency Greetings: Two Christmas Novellas, November 2014All Regency Collection
  • "Christmas Eve Proposal" in It Happened One Christmas
  • "Christmas Dance with the Rancher" in Western Christmas Proposals For This We Are Soldiers: Tales of the Frontier Army A Season of Love
  • "Captain Grey's Christmas Proposal" in ''Regency Christmas Wishes''