Author whose bestselling novels, including Riders and Rivals, were set deep in an English countryside where the natives pursued land, sports, and each other, with lust and gusto

The author of 18 ‘bonkbuster’ novels including Riders, Rivals and Bella has died following a fall

May her hereafter be filled with impossibly handsome men and devoted dogs, says the Queen

The Rivals author was famed for her raunchy romance novels, selling more than 12million books in her career.