Pen name Robyn Donald Genre Romantic novel Occupation Novelist Name Robyn Donald | Nationality New Zealand Role Writer Period 1977–present | |
Books Smoke in the wind, His Pregnant Princess, Innocent Mistress - Royal Wife, Mirror Bride (The Marriage, Return to yesterday | ||
Robyn Donald (born 1940) is a prolific writer of romance novels who lives in Kerikeri in Northland, New Zealand.
She writes for the English Mills and Boon romance series, and all her books have also been reedited under Harlequin Enterprises Limited series. Her first romance titled Bride at Whangatapu was published under the exegesis of Mills and Boon in 1977. Her books are printed 500,000 at a time.
Born as Robyn Kingston in Warkworth where he father owned a dairy farm, she trained and worked as a teacher. She now lives at Kerikeri and is a fulltime writer of about seventy novels to date. Her fiftieth novel The Mirror Bride was published in 1996. They are largely urban Auckland-based romances set in the elite of corporate executives, property investors and lawyers with feisty independent career-oriented heroines and apparently callous and dominating heroes; compared to the earlier South Island-oriented Anglophile romances of Essie Summers.