Marsha Canham (born November 19, 1950) is a Canadian writer of historical romance novels since 1984. She has won two Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Awards, as well as multiple awards for individual books including Best Historical of the Year, Best Medieval of the Year, Best book of the Year, Storyteller of the Year, Best Swashbuckler of the Year.
Biography Canham was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where she resides, to a policeman and a homemaker. Marsha has one son and two grandchildren. Her sister is Canadian politician Carolyn Parrish, elected Mayor of Mississauga in 2024.
In 1984, Marsha published her first historical romance, titled China Rose, and has seventeen such novels in print, including one contemporary romance. She is best known for her award-winning romance trilogies, one set in Scotland: The Pride of Lions, The Blood of Roses, and Midnight Honor. The other is set in medieval England and deals with her own interpretation of the Robin Hood legend: Through a Dark Mist, In the Shadow of Midnight, and The Last Arrow. She is currently working on the fourth book of her pirate wolf saga that began with Across A Moonlit Sea The Iron Rose and The Following Sea.
She has won two Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Awards. plus multiple individual awards including being listed as "One of the seven best mass market fiction books of the year" by Publishers Weekly for The Iron Rose.
Bibliography
As Marsha Canham
Single novels China Rose, 1984 Bound by the Heart, 1984 The Wind and the Sea, 1986 Under the Desert Moon, 1992 Straight for the Heart, 1995 Pale Moon Rider, 1998 Swept Away, 1999 The Dragon Tree (previously published as My Forever Love), 2004
Scotland series The Pride of Lions, 1988 The Blood of Roses, 1989 Midnight Honor, 2001
Robin Hood series Through a Dark Mist, 1991 In the Shadow of Midnight, 1994 The Last Arrow, 1997 My Forever Love, 2003
Dante Pirates series Across a Moonlit Sea, 1996 The Iron Rose, 2003 The Following Sea, 2012 The Far Horizon, 2017 ’’The Black Wind’’, 2025
Short stories and novellas What the Heart Sees (published in the anthology Masters of Seduction), 2011
As Marsha M. Canham
Single novels Dark and Dangerous, 1992
References and sources
External links Homepage List of books in FantasticFiction Biography at New American Library