This plagiarism story was broken by the same bloggers who broke the story about a writer plagiarising the late David Gemmell. The story about best selling romance writer Cassie Edwards plagiarising various scholarly books and articles broke in January, 2008. You can see some of the plagiarism for youself at the site which first reported it:
The good news was just announced: (be sure to click on the link to the side at this website to see the faces of some of the people Edwards stole work from - they are all quite impressive and hard working individuals who deserve a heck of a lot better than what they got at the hands of Edwards!)
It's always nice to see a large corporation do the correct ethical thing! Kudos to her former publisher, Signet!