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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.
Book List in Order: 9 titles
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Lady of Spain
- Jun-1980
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Arriving in London in 1851 to arrange the Montalban Wine display at the Great Exhibition created by Prince Albert, Eduardo Garcia had been charged by Dona Adriana Montalban to bring her granddaughter to Spain. Bereft by the death of her aunts, and co...
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Far Distant Shores
- Mar-1991
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Shipwrecked as a baby and raised as a Cornish fisherman, Mel Caldwell knew he must pursue the mystery of his origins which seemed to lie in Russsia. When the chance came to go to the Crimea as an accredited journalist he knew he had to go. It meant l...
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The Devil's Kiss
- Oct-1992
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The Glittering World of pampered, young Roslyn Darby falls apart when her beloved father is murdered and their beautiful Celonese home burnt to ashes. To escape the Sepoys' rebellion Roslyn flees to England, her only possession a ruby pendant reputed...
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Moonlight Mirage
- Dec-1992
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Cosseted by a brooding aunt, impulsive young Marianne Ross determines to break the shackles of a genteel victorian upbringing. Her fragile beauty belies a stubborn spirit which yearns to explore veiled secrets of life -- and of love. When her fath...
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A Royal Summer
- Mar-1993
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Although it was exciting to be invited by Lady Lydia Greville, and her son to London, for the pageantry leading up to queen Victoria's coronation. Rosalind Cranbourne knew that her father hoped for a marriage proposal from Saint George Greville. ...
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Outback Woman
- Aug-1994
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Look before you leap. That should have been Priscilla Baxter's motto, but it was one she didn't heed. Knowing she wasn't destined to be a star on London's stage, she impulsively accepted the government's offer to pay her fare to the new colony of Au...
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Marrying for Love
- Nov-1997
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Marcus and Amy had to marry! Amy Finch was on a voyage to Ireland to visit her employer's nephew, Marcus Bellingham, when Lady Bellingham contracted a fatal fever. Amy arrived in Ireland having never met Marcus -- and he suspected she was a go...
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A Gentleman's Masquerade
- Mar-1999
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In 1912, Lauri Hartman visited her English relatives, always intending to return to Boston. So her attraction to neighbour Steven Connor took her by surprise. Lauri stayed, cancelling her passage on the Titanic -- and soon she and Steven became very ...
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