Legal name: Cook, Sydney Ann
Other names: Chance, Sara
Carr, Sherry
Clary, Sydney Ann
Dancer, Lacey
Birthdate: 1948
Gender: female
Short biography: Sydney Ann Cook borned in 1948, wrote as Sara Chance, Sherry Carr, Sydney Ann Clary and Lacey Dancer. She started to published novels in 1983, and continue until 1996, when her published Meteor closed its doors abruptly in 1997. Her last novel, Many Faces of Love, was unpublished until 2003, when she has set up her own publishing company, Clear Ice Publishing, to release the title in mass-market. As Lacey Dancer, she won the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award in 1991-1992 for Series Romance Love and Laughter, and a second Romantic Times Career Achievement Award in 1996 for Series Romantic Adventure.

Cook is a woman of many interests. Her husband and writing are numbers one and two; but that doesn't stop her from collecting antique saltcellars, an assortment of farm animals, and learning organic gardening.
Nationality: USA
Disambiguation notice: Sydney Ann Cook writes as Sara Chance, Sherry Carr, Sydney Ann Clary and Lacey Dancer.
Associated Place (for map): USA

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jjmcgaffey 3,320 reviews

Diamond on Ice by Lacey Dancer

Wonderful. It's clumsy in (a few) spots - illogical reactions, unlikely gestures, tell rather than show - it may be one of her early books. And with all that, it was magnificent. Jason and Diana are solid, well-described people, with logical motivations and reactions (mostly), with a great story connecting them. I was crying all through the last couple chapters. The skating complex and its aims makes a good story by itself, though the romance is the main focus (of course). I'll be rereading show more this, and I want the rest of the series - I didn't know she'd written these (actually, I have a couple, but I didn't know they were part of a series).
Huh. I had the author confused with another one - who also writes magnificent Kismet romances. Now I have a new author to collect... show less

Jun 24, 2014

ForeignCircus 374 reviews

The Duchess and the Devil by Sydney Ann Clary

I've owned this book for years, and rate it as one of my favorite romance novels. After the death of her beloved mother, Byrony Balmaine has no choice but to live with the uncle she has never met. Eager to protect her (and to redeem the neighbor his late wife loved as a son), he arranges to marry Byrony to Deveril St. John, the Devil Duke. The union of these two reluctant partners is tumultuous at best, and drives both to actions they later regret. Their attempts to manage the passion that show more flares between them are complicated by an old friend who falls in love with Byrony and the machinations of St. John's black-hearted mother. In the end of course, true love wins out, but the journey to this foregone conclusion is wild and wonderful enough to make this book a keeper. show less

Oct 20, 20081 other review

dkhiggin 69 reviews

Duchess and the Devil by Sydney Ann Clary

Fairly typical Regency romance. I enjoyed the strength of the female lead, but the unrelieved cruelty of the male lead got rather old. The initial sex scenes were brutal, almost. To me, it seemed unlikely that he would make such a sudden reversal into loving his wife.

Feb 21, 2015 (Edited)1 other review