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Lorraine Heath is an American author of contemporary romance, historical romance, paranormal romance and young adult novels under multiple pen names, including Rachel Hawthorne, J.A. London, and Jade Parker. She is known for her "beautiful, deeply emotional romances" and in 1997, she received the Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Short Historical Romance for her novel Always to Remember. As of June 2015, fifteen of her titles made the USA Today bestseller list. Biography Heath was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, England from an American father and a British mother. Her parents met while her a father was stationed at Bovingdon while serving in the air force. Shortly after Heath's birth, her family moved to Texas where she was raised in Angleton, Texas. She earned a BA in psychology from the University of Texas and lived in Austin, Texas for sixteen years before moving to Plano, Texas in 1987. In 1998, Laura Bush, then First Lady of Texas, invited Heath to serve on a romance panel at the Texas Book Festival. She wrote training manuals and computer code for the IRS before she turned to fiction writing when she picked up LaVyrle Spencer’s Morning Glory which hooked her not only on Spencer's work, but convinced her that she wanted to write romance. She said up until then she "...had a preconception of what romance was." In 1993, she sold her first novel, Sweet Lullaby. Since then, she's authored over sixty novels, with historical and contemporary romance for adults and historical romance for teen readers. Under the names Rachel Hawthorne and Jade Parker, she writes popular contemporary, historical, and paranormal romance for teens readers. She also writes young adult with her son Alex under the name J. A. London. In an interview with USA Today, she revealed how she keeps her writing personas separate, "...it helps that I write my historicals in third person and my YA in first so it's a mental shift when I'm writing a particular genre. Writing with my son is a bit more challenging because we wanted J.A. to have a unique voice that was edgier to go with our dystopian world and he's often marking words or phrases that he thinks sounds too Rachel-ish. It's rather like going on a mini-vacation when I slip between the genres. I think it helps to keep my writing fresh because I'm able to go in diverse directions and explore various worlds." She named the following authors as influential in her young adult writing: Richelle Mead, Sophie Jordan, Marissa Meyer, but mostly Catherine Clark. "When I first became interested in writing Young Adult, I read her books to get a flavoring for the YA genre. Then I was reading her simply because I enjoyed her stories so much." She's known for her "deeply emotional romances" and "deft characterizations, attention to historical detail and mastery of small moments." Her writing habits include writing late at night and listening to a CD of a thunderstorm. "It narrows my focus so it's just me, the story, and the thunder." When her novel A Matter of Temptation reached the New York Times bestseller list, she recalls "I had been out walking the dog and I came in and there was a message on the machine. It said, 'My dear, you've hit the New York Times.' Actually, my husband thought somebody had died because I was screaming and crying... It's something that all authors aspire to do so it's ... it's nice when it happens." She relates the inspiration for her RITA-winning novel Always to Remember in an interview. "While watching a PBS special on the Civil War, a comment was made that often men from the same town served in the same unit so if a unit was wiped out, the town had no men to return to it. It mentioned how hard this was on the townspeople... I began to wonder, what if only one man returned and everyone thought he was a coward since he survived, but he really wasn't? And what if the town wanted a memorial, and he was the only one with the skills to make it? And the story began to develop from there." In 2015, publisher Avon Books and independent bookstore Powell's Books started a new romance-author curated list of four books called "Mutual Attractions". The third collaboration was released on June 1, 2015 by Heath, and her short list consisted of Jennifer Bernard's All of Me, Kathleen Baldwin's A School for Unusual Girls, Kristen Callihan's Evernight, and Sarah MacLean's No Good Duke Goes Unpunished. Heath currently resides in Plano with her husband and two sons. Bibliography As Lorraine Heath Texas Series (Leigh Brothers series) Historical Romance 1 Texas Destiny. June 1997. 2 Texas Glory. April 1998. 3 Texas Splendor. January 1999. 3.5Texas Legacy. January 2019. Rogues in Texas Historical Romance A Rogue in Texas. April 1999. Never Love a Cowboy. April 2000. Never Marry a Cowboy. February 2001. Daughters of Fortune Historical Romance The Outlaw and the Lady. October 2001. To Marry an Heiress. September 2002. Love With a Scandalous Lord. June 2003. An Invitation to Seduction. May 2004. The Lost Lords Historical Romance As an Earl Desires. April 2005. A Matter of Temptation. October 2005. Promise Me Forever. April 2006. Rogues and Roses Historical Romance A Duke of Her Own. November 2006. Just Wicked Enough. September 2007. Scoundrels of St. James Historical Romance Character guide: https://www.lorraineheath.com/st-james-character-guide 1 In Bed With the Devil. June 2008. 2 Between the Devil and Desire. January 2009. 3 Surrender to the Devil. July 2009. 4 Midnight Pleasures With a Scoundrel. November 2009. 4.5 The Last Wicked Scoundrel. January 2014. London's Greatest Lovers Historical Romance Passions of a Wicked Earl. November 2010. Pleasures of a Notorious Gentleman. December 2010. Waking Up With the Duke. July 2011. Lost Lords of Pembrook Historical Romance 1. She Tempts the Duke. February 2012. 2. Lord of Temptation. September 2012. 2.5 Deck the Halls with Love. February 2013. 3. Lord of Wicked Intentions. May 2013. Scandalous Gentlemen of St. James Historical Romance Character guide: https://www.lorraineheath.com/st-james-character-guide 1 When the Duke Was Wicked. February 2014. 2 Once More, My Darling Rogue. September 2014. 3 The Duke and the Lady in Red. May 2015. 4 An Affair with a Notorious Heiress. May 2017 4.5 Gentlemen Prefer Heiresses. August 2017 Hellions of Havisham Historical Romance 1 Falling Into Bed with a Duke. October 2015 2 The Earl Takes All. April 2016 3 The Viscount and the vixen. November 2016 3.5 When the marquess falls. March 2017 Sins for All Seasons Historical Romance Beyond Scandal and Desire. January 2018. When a Duke Loves a Woman. August 2018. The Scoundrel in Her Bed. February 2019. The Duchess in His Bed. August 2019. The Earl Takes a Fancy. March 2020. Beauty Tempts the Beast. September 2020. Once upon a Dukedom Historical Romance Scoundrel of my heart. April 2021. The Duchess Hunt. September 2021 Stand-alone works Historical Romance Sweet Lullaby. March 1994. Parting Gifts. December 19.... Discover the Lorraine Heath popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Lorraine Heath books.