Diane Gaston is an American author of Regency romance novels. She has also written under the pen name Diane Perkins.
Gaston won the Romance Writers of America RITA Award in 2006 for Best Regency Romance for her novel A Reputable Rake. She has been nominated twice for Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Awards, once for each of the novels written as Diane Perkins. Gaston won the 2016 Virginia Romance Writers Holt Medallion award for Best Historical and for Best Book by Virginia Author for Bound by Duty.
Lord Brentmore, halvt irsk bonde og halvt engelsk aristokrat, voksede op i skyggen af en skandale. Selv penge og titel var ikke nok til at stoppe ondsindet sladder. Han svor, at hans børn aldrig skulle udsættes for den samme stigmatisering. Da børnenes berygtede mor døde, fik de brug for en velrenommeret guvernante. Men Anna Hill er for lidenskabelig og for tiltrækkende, men samtidig fylder hun Brentmore Hall med lys og latter igen, og husherren med følelser han havde glemt ...