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Jean Saunders
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Jean Innes was born on 8 February 1932 in London, England, but she have lived in the West Country almost all her life, she was educated in Weston-super-Mare, Avon. She married with Geoff Saunders, her childhood sweetheart, and they have three grown up children. She lives in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, where she writes full time.
Afther the publication of her first novel, Jean began a career as a magazine writer and had published around 600 short stories. She start to published gothic romance novels under her married and maiden name in the 1970s. In 1980s, she created, to wrote historical romances, two pseudonyms, her most popular, Rowena Summers and Sally James. In 1991 her novel, "The Bannister Girls," was shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of Year award. In 2004, she began to used the penname Rachel Moore. She has been an active member and enthusiast of Swanwick, the Writers' Summer School, which takes place in Derbyshire, England, every August, she has been a committee member several times, and also Vice-Chairman. She was elected the seventeenth Chairman (1993-1995) of the Romantic Novelists' Association. As a member of the Romance Writers of America she has given talks at conferences in various venues of the USA. She has been a member of the Crime Writers' Association. She also is a member and past committee member of the West Country Writers' Association.
Full Series List in Order
Alexandra Best PI
1 - Thicker Than Water (Aug-1999)2 - Illusions (Mar-2000)
3 - Deadly Suspicions (Oct-2001)
Scottish Husbands
1 - Scarlet Rebel (Dec-1984)2 - Golden Destiny (May-1986)
Book List in Order: 28 titles
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The Fugitives
- Nov-1974
- / Contemporary Romance
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Pete was going on the road for a whole month. No ties, no responsibilites, no stupid school, and no Ma fussing round him. Four weeks of complete freedom to do just as he liked - or so he thought. In the gloom of the derelict house where he's dossing ...
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The Whispering Dark
- Jan-1976
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For Rowan, escape from an institution leads to the Bohemian world of artists and actors in the Bristol of the 1800s. Her saviour is Daniel, who loves her passionately. But she has glimpsed another world across the river which divides the city, the wo...
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The Wishing Stone
- Aug-1976
- / General Fiction
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Penzance! Katie Boswell had loved it as a child and loved it now. Palm trees on the streets... wild flowers on the moors... the storm-tossed sea-Cornwall was a place of wildly romantic legends and wildly contrasting moods. She had no qualms about giv...
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The Kissing Time
- May-1982
- / Contemporary Romance
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LOVE CAME WHEN SHE LEAST EXPECTED IT. Fireworks sparked the first meeting of Julia and Vincent Galbraith. In the best of times, Julia would have mistrusted the Laird of Galbraith Hall. He was too handsome--and too used to getting his own way. But...
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Love's Sweet Music
- Apr-1983
- / Contemporary Romance
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HE PLAYED THE MUSIC OF HER HEART. For Angela Raines, it seemed like a dream come true. As publicist for the renowned but mercurial pianist Paul Blake, she had the opportunity of a lifetime--to accompany him on his Continental tour. She adored Pari...
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The Language of Love
- Aug-1983
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RED ROSES FOR A BLUE LADY... Widowed at twenty by a tragic accident, Annette Granger vowed to herself that Tony would stay in her heart forever. She threw herself into her work, making "Annette" a famous name among London s floral designers. F...
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Taste the Wine
- Nov-1983
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IT HAD ONCE BEEN SO PERFECT. Theirs had been a fairy-tale marriage . . . until Stuart Graham's advertising career demanded more of his time than Lindsey was willing for him to give. A year's separation was no more than a heartbeat, now that cir...
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Partners in Love
- Apr-1984
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WINNER TAKE ALL Robin Pollard thought nothing could threaten the wild beauty of her Cornish home, until a rugged stranger named Luke Burgess invaded her private world. As a property developer Luke was unsurpassed, and even her own stubborn father ...
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Scarlet Rebel
- Dec-1984
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Young and innocent, she would do anything to be with the man she loved... The passion between beautiful Katrina and Jamie was so strong they could barely wait to be married. But then Bonnie Prince Charles landed on the Scottish coast, and the High...
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Golden Destiny
- May-1986
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IN BRITISH INDIA, ALEXANDRA FOUND A PRECIOUS LOVE AND A BLOODY REBELLION THAT THREATENED ALL HER DREAMS! At seventeen, beautiful Alexandra Truscott sailed from England for exotic India to join her diplomat father. On the long voyage, she was capt...
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All in the April Morning
- Feb-1989
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Orphaned by the San Francisco earthquake, Bridget O'Connell must assume responsibility for herself and her eight-year-old sister Kitty. They face an uncertain future with only Bridget's fierce spirit to sustain them. An epic novel of one woman's stru...
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The Bannister Girls
- Feb-1990
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At the outbreak of World War I women still had assigned, gender related roles. But the advent of the war slowly eroded these barriers so that by 1915 Louise, Ellen and Angel had each begun to find their own niche in a rapidly changing world....
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To Love and Honour
- Jan-1992
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London, 1925, and for Amy Moore, downstairs maid in the aristocratic Beaumont household, the dream of romance is too sweet to hold. Throwing herself into a own business venture, she tries to come to terms with her life, only to have the past catch up...
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With This Ring
- Jun-1993
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A love-hate romance set in England and France against a mountaineering background. Tania Paget was devastated by the death of her brother James, in a mountaineering accident. She resented the fact that his climbing partner, the French Claude Girard, ...
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Wives, Friends and Lovers
- Sep-1996
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Laura had married Nick after a whirlwind romance and was still in love with him. She was happy too with her friends. She, Gemma and Penny had been best friends since childhood but now disaster was threatening and the women had to learn that being apa...
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Journey's End
- Dec-1996
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Evacuated to Wales at the start of World War II, Rose Forster was doubly bereft when her parents were killed in an air raid and her sister Gracie married a GI and went to live in California. Now almost eighteen, Gracie has finally sent for her. With ...
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A Different Kind of Love
- Feb-1998
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Kate Sullivan grew up the moment her brother came to tell her she'd been jilted. Living in rural Somerset just after the Great War, she would have become an object of pity and the focus of gossip, so she took the bridal money, used the hotel reservat...
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Thicker Than Water
- Aug-1999
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A crime novel in which Alexandra Best, private investigator, is hired to find Caroline Price, a missing heiress who is deaf and a reclusive crossword compiler, whose fortune will be inherited by her cousin if she does not claim it by her birthday. Th...
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Deadly Suspicions
- Oct-2001
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The discovery of a mutilated hand had closed the investigation into the disappearance of 16-year-old Steven Leng. Now, ten years later, the victim's mother, is still determined to find out what really happened to her son and contacts private investig...
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A Perfect Marriage
- Aug-2002
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Robert Jarvis dies from a heart attack, leaving his wife Margaret a widow at 42. Family and friends rally round, but their attentions only serve to stifle her, and her increasing suspicions that her marriage had not been as perfect as it had appeared...
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Unforgettable
- Oct-2003
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Gracie Brown's dream is to become an acclaimed seamstress, but because of her background, she believes that success is an unattainable goal. Then, at the opening of the new Palais, she meets Charlie, a dashing saxophone player. Dancing in his arms, s...
