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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1975
  • Latest Book:
    April 1998
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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.

Book List in Order: 24 titles



  • FLIGHT FROM HEARTACHE When Peter broke their engagement, Joanne's only escape from the heartbreak of rejection was the wild, remote Scottish island of Maigh. There, as secretary to the famous author Gerald Ashton, she tried to erase her shattered ...











  • 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 ...







  • The chance to work in Austria was a dream come true for Chrissie Morrow: it would probably solve the problem of David, whom she did not love enough to marry. But she did not expect her employer's playboy god-son, Rudi Vogl, to figure so prominently ...






  • With the stars as her guide and nature's colors as her inspiration, lovely Shelley Rogers had made a name for herself as London's most gifted interior designer. Now she was off to the sun-bright Isle of Jersey to redecorate wealthy Alex Hart's enchan...



  • IT WAS A NIGHT FOR LOVERS... But not for her. Stephanie Morland, journalist. extraordinaire--otherwise known as Steve--was in Tunisia on assignment.. There was work to be done. And, like it or not, she was teamed with Elliot Ward. First-rate photo...








  • INFAMOUS SCOUNDREL As she stood at the bow of The Adventuress, Sarah Huxley wondered if she had made a terrible mistake. She had run away from an arranged marriage, leaving everything she had ever known, to seek a haven on a pirate ship. But even he...



  • SHE FOUGHT HIS ADVANCES... Lovely Breda Vivien was livid! The law threatened that unless she married, she might lose her beloved Cornwall estate. The proud, raven-haired Breda refused to barter herself to a man--not even the rugged Richard Delacey, ...



  • SHE'S NEVER AGREE TO MARRIAGE! Ashley Sherwood, the tall, rugged owner of a California saloon, figured he could handle just about anything... until the terms of his grandfather's will forced him to travel to England to find a bride and he met the de...



  • PASSION DESIRED Lydia Grey had never felt comfortable with her English relatives with whom she had lived since the death of her parents. It was her childhood in India that made her different, filling her with secret desires she knew could never be f...



  • "Blackmaddie puts a curse on all those who try to escape her clutches" 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 rese...






  • ROUGH PASSION When she awakened injured and alone in a lifeboat the morning after that tragic shipwreck, Caroline Rowe didn't have much hope of surviving. But Luke Garston had saved her life and brought her to his very own tropical island. Though Ca...



  • WELCOME TO A WORLD OF HEARTS AND FLOWERS, SATIN AND LACE...ARISTOCRATS AND ADVENTURERS, PENNILESS HEIRESSES AND IRRESISTIBLE ROGUES... MATCHES MADE IN HEAVEN AND MARRIAGES MADE RIGHT HERE ON EARTH... Camilla Trent is A RELUCTANT BRIDE whiz the we...



  • LOVE'S SPLENDOR Rosanna revels in the freedom of her nomadic life. With the lush grasses of the Irish moorland beneath her bare feet, she moves in sensual rhythm to the passionate strains of the gypsies' dance.. . Now Rosanna finds her way of l...



  • Gentian Valmar Mallory awakens in the rocking hold of a ship, rope-bound and unable to remember where she is...or who she is. She is convinced she has been kidnapped by pirates, or worse. Until the ship's captain, Lord Trevis Mallory, stuns her with ...



  • Lost in a wager between her stepfather an the archaeologist Captain Ross Kilamarron, Stephanie Buchan is forced to marry the charismatic adventurer. Now, she must accompany him on an excursion to Arabia - and the oasis empire of a desert prince. As S...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jean Innes has published 24 books.

Jean Innes does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Jewel, was published in April 1998.

The first book by Jean Innes, Ashton's Folly, was published in January 1975.

No. Jean Innes does not write books in series.