Writing under the names Charlotte Maclay, her father’s middle name Charlotte Moore, her mother’s maiden name and Charlotte Carter, her own maiden name, Lobb’s titles include “Montana Wrangler,” “Home to Montana” and “Montana Hearts.” Her first book was published in 1991.įabio, an Italian fashion model who appeared on the covers of hundreds of romance novels in the 1980s and ’90s, showed up on some of Lobb’s books. She read it over and over and soon joined the Orange County chapter of the Romance Writers of America. In the 1970s, Lobb wrote four nonfiction books about animals and volunteerism, but in the mid-1980s her husband bought her a book that explained how to write a romance novel. “I was born a storyteller because I began telling stories before the third grade,” Charlotte Lobb wrote on her website,. You just knew this was the right person.”īut it was her love for storytelling and romance novels that developed into a career. We got back in the car and she said, ‘I don’t think you asked me to marry you.’ So I did in the parking lot.

We went downtown, did the ring shopping and bought a ring. “I never proposed to her,” said her husband. She told him later that she knew right away, “I ought to marry this guy.” They did, on Aug. “I invited her on a date and we went to the Santa Monica Symphony and Henry Mancini was the conductor,” Charles Lobb said. He lived in Playa del Rey she lived in Alhambra. She played the flute and he played the clarinet. The couple met in 1960 during a volunteer orchestra performance at Morningside High School in Inglewood. “She went in her sleep,” her husband said.

28, 1935, in Oakland, Lobb died Sunday at home following a brief battle with lung cancer, said her husband, Charles Lobb.

Charlotte Lobb, a longtime Torrance resident who wrote more than 50 romance novels for Harlequin and other publishers under three pseudonyms, has died.

Home to Montana by Charlotte Carter