Lauryn Chandler is an American

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 of contemporary romance novels. She has also written under the pseudonym

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 Wendy Warren.

Chandler has twice been the recipient of the highest honor given to romance novelists, the Romance Writers of America

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's RITA Award. Both of her wins came in the category Best Traditional Romance, in 1997 for her novel Her Very Own Husband and in 1995 for Oh, Baby!. She has also been twice nominated for Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Awards.

As Lauryn Chandler

• Mr. Wright (1993)
• Romantics Anonymous (1993)
• Oh, Baby! (1994)
• Her Very Own Husband (1996)
• Just Say I Do (1997)
• The Drifter's Gift (1997)

As Wendy Warren

• Dakota Bride (2002)
• The Oldest Virgin in Oakdale (2002)
• Making Babies (2005)
• Undercover Nanny (2005)
• The Boss and Miss Baxter (2006)
• Once More, at Midnight (2007)
• The Baby Bargain (2007)

Omnibus

• Wanted: One Father / Making Babies (2005) (with Penny Richards)
• Other Side of Paradise / Undercover Nanny (2005) (with Laurie Paige)