Lucy Gordon

British romance novelist (born Christine Sparks, later Christine Sparks Fiorotto) who published more than 75 novels for Mills & Boon, Harlequin and Silhouette between 1984 and 2017. A former magazine journalist for Woman's Own, she set most of her books in Italy, reflecting her marriage to a Venetian artist. She won Romance Writers of America RITA Awards for Song of the Lorelei (1991) and His Brother's Child (1998). She died in May 2026.