Amber Dana

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  • Bibliography:
    13 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1969
  • Latest Book:
    December 1999
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About the Author

William Edward Daniel Ross was born on November 16, 1912 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, son of Laura (Brooks) and William Edward Ross. In 1930, while he studied, he began his career as the manager of an acting company with which he also acted. Very early in his professional life, he was awarded the Dominion Drama Festival Prize for Playwriting. During the Second World War, he served with British Entertainment Services.

He married Charlotte McCormack, who died in 1959, and remarried in 1960, with the nurse Marilyn Ann Clark. He began writing short-stories in 1950s, and novels after his second marriage. Her wife was the first reader of his works. He wrote popular romances and gothic fiction as W. E. D. Ross and Dan Ross and under a variety of mostly female pseudonyms such as Jane Rossiter, Leslie Ames, Ellen Randolph, Ann Gilmer, Rose Williams, Rose Dana, Clarissa Ross, Marilyn Ross, Jan Daniels, Charlotte McCormack, Ruth Dorset, Miriam Leslie, Amber Ross, Dana Ross, Laura Frances Brooks, Lydia Colby, Diana Randall, and Marilyn Carter. He started writing erotic novels as Olin Ross, and Western novels as Dan Roberts and Tex Steele. He died on November 1, 1995 in his native Saint John, at 82, survived by his wife.

Book List in Order: 13 titles

  • One Love for Summer

  • Love and Company

  • The Widow is a Temptress

  • Love is a Red Rose

  • Love Is Triumph

    Old Everett King had made up his mind that both his grandsons, Sanford and Walter, would slave for the family company, as he had done himself and as he had forced their dead father to do. But Walter rebelled, fled, and hid out all winter in a Cree vi...

  • A Rich Girl's Love

    Grandfather Tolman was a fiercely loyal old charlatan. He wanted his only grandchild, Patricia, to meet and marry a worthwhile man, not just some rich man's son. When he decided Joseph MacDonald, a construction engineer on one of his investment proje...

  • Helen of Troydon

  • Queen of Hearts

  • A Rose Without Love

    At twenty-two, widowhood was an unbearable burden. Then Peggy met the hippy-type young man up along Cortez Creek. While the entire village watched and talked she fell in love and was ready to defy all conventions to live her own life. But her hippy t...



  • A Scarlet Dawn

    It was a violently stormy night when Paul Jaeger heard the airplane overhead, its motor missing and sputtering as it headed directly towards the rain-hidden bluffs of Dogwood Mountain, and when the noise suddenly stopped he knew the worst had happene...

  • The Kiss of Life

    The Reverend Les Pawley and his wife had raised two daughters on a New England village, proud of the way each girl was maturing and learning. Then love came to Mary Elisabeth, the elder daughter, in a lurid way - and young Michelle fell in love with ...

  • Jade Moon

  • The Butterfly Moon

    The local residents were convinced that the recluse on Lily Pad Lake was a jilted lover, or possibly a fugitive. Tom Grant's nearest neighbors were an older couple who lived across the lake. When their daughter Natalie, a beautiful young lawyer from ...

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Amber Dana has published 13 books.

Amber Dana does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Butterfly Moon, was published in December 1999.

The first book by Amber Dana, One Love for Summer, was published in January 1969.

No. Amber Dana does not write books in series.
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