Rowena Summers

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  • Bibliography:
    34 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1980
  • Latest Book:
    January 2023
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About the Author

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

Caldwell Saga

1 - Taking Heart (Dec-2000)
2 - Daisy's War (Aug-2001)
3 - The Caldwell Girls (Jun-2002)
4 - Dreams of Peace (Nov-2002)

Chase Saga

1 - Long Shadows (Oct-2007)
2 - Distant Horizons (Jul-2008)

Cornish Clay

1 - Killigrew Clay (Mar-1987)
2 - Clay Country (Jan-1988)
3 - Family Ties (Nov-1988)
4 - Family Shadows (Aug-1995)
5 - Primmy's Daughter (Mar-1998)
6 - White Rivers (Jan-1999)
7 - September Morning (Aug-1999)
8 - A Brighter Tomorrow (Feb-2000)
A Safe Haven (Aug-1996)

Elkins Saga

1 - Shelter from the Storm (Jul-2005)
2 - Monday's Child (Oct-2005)

O'Neil Saga

1 - Chasing Rainbows (Jun-2009)
2 - Pot of Gold (Jan-2010)
3 - Old Secrets (Sep-2011)

Book List in Order: 34 titles

  • Blackmaddie

    Summoned to Scotland by her ailing grandfather, Charlotte Brodie had anticipated a warm reception at Blackmaddie castle. Instead she was met with the hostility and resentment of a strange and troubled family. Only her handsome and arrogant cousin was...

  • The Savage Moon

    Fire of passion, ashes of lust. The great hunger drove Gabe and Mick O'Brien from famine-wracked Ireland to the bleak English fen country. Where they found love and hate burning side by side beneath THE SAVAGE MOON. From the hardship of rural E...

  • The Sweet Red Earth

    Beautiful Loveday Willard must face grief, the attentions of her lustful cousin, and the disgrace of her boastful father before she can be reunited with her true love, Adam Gose....

  • Willow Harvest

    Was it purely by chance that the Nash family newcomers to that part of the West Country should share the same surname as the evil man who long ago had been put to the gallows at Beech Cross? It was enough for the village folk to regard these strong w...

  • Killigrew Clay

    Cornish Clay - 1

    Killigrew clay has made Charles the rich man he was and it would make a fine legacy for his son, Ben. Charles had not realised that his son was his own master. Ben was young and handsome and determined to have Morwen Tremayne. Morwen, daughter of a c...

  • Clay Country

    Cornish Clay - 2

    Morwen Tremayne's humble life is radically changed by her marriage to wealthy Ben Killigrew, but their happiness is theatened by the looming shadow of the Crimean War....

  • Family Ties

    Cornish Clay - 3

    Somehow, Morwen Tremayne had lost Ben Killigrew - and he didn't seem to care. He was no longer the man she had married, the strong yet passionate man who had raised her from her humble past and made her mistress of Killigrew House. And now, adding to...

  • Highland Heritage

    Living with her uncle in the Highlands after her parents die, Annie Blair is tossed into a feud with a neighboring family dating back more than a hundred years. It began when Mackinty and Miranda Blair eloped and died for their support of Bonnie Prin...

  • Velvet Dawn

    Convinced that her new stepmother, Maggie, is only after her father's money, career woman Andrea Gilmore is reluctant to join the newlyweds on the cruise her father has planned, and when tragedy strikes Andrea must come to terms with her suspicions....



  • Angel of the Evening

    Brie Roberts, who takes a job as companion to a spoilt young girl on the island of Corfu, and finds that she is falling in love with her charge's half-brother, a famous and handsome TV tycoon, but plans to return home when she realizes that she might...

  • Ellie's Island

    When Ellie Mackenzie's boss sold his hotel on the Greek island Ephos, she thought she would have to leave. However Richard Dane, the son of the new American owner, persuades her to stay and run the hotel. It is not long before it becomes clear that h...

  • Bargain Bride

    Opinion magazine columnist Holly Jones tricks her way into the household of Rawle Paxton in order to write a story about him. She changes her interview plans when subject Rawle Paxton lets slip his aversion to journalists, and instead poses as a trav...

  • Hidden Currents

    The year is 1843, and poor as they may be, Carrie Stuckey and her friend Elsie have their dreams. Into their lives comes John Travis, a man who represents everything Carrie could wish for, but who manages to create conflict between them all....

  • A Woman of Property

    After her father's death, Breda discovers that her home will go to a male relative unless she marries within six months. When Delacey returns from the Crimean War with mementoes of her dead brother, she marries him without revealing her wealth and re...

  • Family Shadows

    Cornish Clay - 4

    Killigrew Clay has become one of the biggest china clayworks in Cornwall. But the fortunes of china clay are never stable, & threats to its future come from a ruthless woman clay boss, Harriet Pendragon, who has her sights set, not only on Killigrew ...

  • A Safe Haven

    Cornish Clay

    Sussex coast, England, 1763. As lovely young widow Sarah Huxley celebrates her 21st birthday at the family seat of her uncle, Lord Endor, the celebrations are interrupted by an invited visitor: the notorious pirate Black Robbie, and his pirate crew. ...

  • Primmy's Daughter

    Cornish Clay - 5

    Skye Tremayne, the American daughter of Primmy Tremayne, has always been fascinated by her family's turbulent history around the old Cornish clay works around St Austell. She takes a year's sabbatical from her work in USA as journalist to travel to C...

  • White Rivers

    Cornish Clay - 6

    The wedding of Adam Pengelly and Vera Pollard brings many Cornish families together once again, including the Tremaynes, owners of Killigrew Clay and the White Rivers Pottery. Skye Tremayne is now married to her wartime lover Philip Norwood, and w...

  • September Morning

    Cornish Clay - 7

    It is 1936 and on leaving finishing school Celia and Wenna Pengelly, Skye Tremayne's daughters, go their separate ways - Cella to New Jersey and Wenna to London. However Cornwall is still their haven, and home to the family business Killigrew Clay. I...



  • A Brighter Tomorrow

    Cornish Clay - 8

    1940 the Pengelly family is disrupted by the arrival of four evacuees from London, and world events invade the domestic scene. Through heartache and joy, this story details the rich tapestry of a family in war and peace, and the love that binds them ...

  • Taking Heart

    Caldwell Saga - 1

    Bristol, 1939: When lovely nineteen-year-old Imogen Caldwell learns from her father that their haberdashery shop, Caldwell Supplies, is in crisis, she realises that her life and that of her family is about to change beyond recognition. Her beautiful ...

  • Daisy's War

    Caldwell Saga - 2

    With hope dwindling, can she find her way again?The three Caldwell sisters have split up. Imogen has joined the war effort, Elsie has married, and Daisy is living away from home and missing her sisters.Although busy making new friends and dancing wit...

  • The Caldwell Girls

    Caldwell Saga - 3

    They must band together to get through the toughest of times…Imogen Caldwell is excelling in her role as an Auxiliary Territorial Service driver, trying her hardest to distract herself from worrying about her fiancé, James Church, who is off fight...

  • Dreams of Peace

    Caldwell Saga - 4

    The Caldwells cope with the final days of World War II in Summers' latest. Imogen continues to be superstitious about marrying her fiance before the war ends; then, when she finally decides to go through with it, her plans go awry. Daisy continues to...

  • This Girl

    Lisa Newman's photographic memory and linguistic skills make her no ordinary girl. On leaving school she goes to France to teach English to the Dubois children, and finds a home from home. Then World War II breaks out and Lisa is urged, for her own s...

  • Shelter from the Storm

    Elkins Saga - 1

    England, 1935. The Retreat is a popular seaside hotel on the Somerset coast. The family-owned hotel is run by Donald and Ruth Elkins, their three daughters, and Clover, their delightfully eccentric grandmother. Charlotte, the eldest daughter, is hopi...

  • Monday's Child

    Elkins Saga - 2

    Charlotte Elkins was excitedly preparing for her wedding to the local blacksmith, and although she sometimes had second thoughts about it, she knew it was far too late to abandon the arrangements. Her younger sister, Josie, always the wildest and mos...

  • Blackthorn Cottage

    Bristol, England, 1930. As a city girl, Jasmine Wyatt isn't at all sure what to think at inheriting a cottage in a small Somerset village. Her irascible widowed father is totally against her living there, and the opposition of local estate agent W...

  • Long Shadows

    Chase Saga - 1

    A Londoner by birth, Alice Chase had met her husband Walter, while visiting Somerset on a charabanc trip. She had now lived in the small Somerset village of Bramwell with Walter and their four children for twenty years. But the past can throw long sh...



  • Distant Horizons

    Chase Saga - 2

    It is the early days of the phoney war and Alice Chase is awaiting the impending birth of a fifth child. With the arrival of two young evacuees in her sister-in-law's household it seems that the war is finally changing their peaceful lives in the Som...

  • Chasing Rainbows

    O'Neil Saga - 1

    Bristol, 1924: kitchen maid Cherry O'Neil is besotted by the son of her wealthy boss, and when she is seduced by him she imagines herself truly in love. The feelings take a sharp knock when she thinks she may be pregnant and is too afraid to tell him...

  • Pot of Gold

    O'Neil Saga - 2

    After an uneasy start to their marriage, Cherry and Lance Melchior are now living on a small working farm. Its a very different life for both Lance, a once-rich playboy, and Cherry, a former kitchen-maid. But when Lances brother dies he becomes Lord ...

  • Old Secrets

    O'Neil Saga - 3

    Cherry Melchoir leads an idyllic life as the wife of Lord Lance Melchoir, but she never forgets her old life below stairs--before Lance fell in love with her and married her, despite his family’s disapproval. Lance banished Cherry’s evil, blackma...

  • Someone to Call Her Own

    Will she finally get the life she always dreamed of?Kate Sullivan is a simple country girl, living in Somerset with her parents, until she’s left jilted on her wedding day. Suddenly, her life becomes far more complicated than she ever expected it t...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Rowena Summers has published 34 books.

Rowena Summers does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Someone to Call Her Own, was published in January 2023.

The first book by Rowena Summers, Blackmaddie, was published in September 1980.

Yes. Rowena Summers has 5 series.
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