Rebecca Brandewyne

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  • Bibliography:
    35 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1980
  • Latest Book:
    June 2009
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About the Author

Mary Rebecca Wadsworth was born on March 4, 1955 in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she lived and then, later, Chattanooga for the first few years of her life. After that, the family moved to Kansas, where she grew up, spending the summers in her grandparents' home in Alabama. She has two sisters, Mimi and Nancy, and two brothers, Thomas and Daniel. Her mother, Beverly, remarried with Verne, and she won a step-sister, Chrissy. Rebecca married very young with John Brandewyne, and they had a son, Shane, who was born, appropriately enough, on St. Valentine's Day. Excellent student, she graduated cum laude with departmental honors from Wichita State University, earning a B.A. in journalism, minors in history and music, and an M.A. in communications. She obtained among several other distinguished instructors, three Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, one of the foremost authorities in the field of interpersonal communication and two Victor Murdock Scholarship. Rebecca taught interpersonal communication at the University level before becoming a published writer.

She sold her first novel some months after her twenty-third birthday, making her, at that time, the youngest romance author in America, a record that stood for ten years before finally being broken. To date, Rebecca has written over thirty consecutive bestselling titles, including novels and novellas on the following lists: New York Times, Publishers Weekly, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Magazine & Bookseller, Ingram, B. Dalton, and Waldenbooks, among many others. Rebecca lives in the U.S. Midwest with her son, Shane and her second husband, Englishman John Cox.

Full Series List in Order

Aguilar's Fate

1 - Love, Cherish Me (Sep-1985)
2 - And Gold Was Ours (Dec-1984)

Chronicles of Tintagel

1 - Passion Moon Rising (Apr-1991)
2 - Beyond the Starlit Frost (Apr-1991)

Highclyffe Hall's Chandlers

1 - Upon a Moon-Dark Moor (Jul-1988)
2 - Across a Starlit Sea (Aug-1989)

Multi-Author Series List

Fortune's Children

1 - Hired Husband (Jul-1996)

Man of the Month

82 - Wildcat (Oct-1995)
118 - The Lioness Tamer (Oct-1998)

Book List in Order: 35 titles

  • No Gentle Love

    • / Historical Romance
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    SHE WAS A BEAUTY, BESIEGED BY PASSION, SAILING FROM REGENCY ENGLAND TO MYSTERIOUS MACAO ON AN UNCHARTED VOYAGE TO LOVE Morgana, gently bred, unaware of her burgeoning beauty, was not ready to be... the bride prize in a race between cousins to...

  • Forever My Love

    They were born to hatred, but DESTINED TO LOVE Echoing across the stormy waters of Loch Ness came a gypsy's haunting curse, foretelling a forbidden passion that would drench the Scottish crags with blood. And from the first moment that Mary...

  • Rose of Rapture

    Some called her a sorceress, for her silvery blond beauty was so haunting as to bewitch any man who beheld her. Some called her a healer, for her tenderness could tame the wildest creature. Amid the thorny tangle of the War of the Roses, Lady Isabell...

  • And Gold Was Ours

    Aguilar's Fate - 2

    LOVE CALLED THEM ACROSS THE SEA AND BOUND THEIR FATE TO A GOLDEN LEGEND. In faraway Spain Aurora's fortune was foretold -- the exile from the home of her aristocratic ancestors, the journey to the steaming jungles of Peru, and at last, the lov...

  • Love, Cherish Me

    Aguilar's Fate - 1

    Storm was her name and her destiny. Born on a night when lightning flashed and thunder rolled, the raven-haired beauty was sixteen before the promise of her name became the path of her life. Born to wealth, the belle of five counties wagered aw...

  • The Outlaw Hearts

    THE SAGA OF A RENEGADE, A LADY, AND A LOVE THAT BECAME A LEGEND Out of the Ozark's deep valleys the notorious Luke Morgan gallops toward destiny ... for on the train carrying the gold he seeks to steal is another treasure -- gray-eyed Jenny Leigh ...

  • Upon a Moon-Dark Moor

    Highclyffe Hall's Chandlers - 1

    SHE WAS HIGHBORN AND BEAUTIFUL...HE WAS GYPSY-DARK AND BRAZEN Only the crying gulls and crashing waves of the rocky Cornish coast were witness to their embrace. Maggie was Sir Nigel Chandler's proud daughter and the mistress of Highclyffe Hall...

  • Desire in Disguise

    THEY CALLED HER THE CRIMSON WITCH... Born Genevieve Saint-Georges, she had reigned as the belle of Paris until the French Revolution sent her fleeing for her life. Now, masked in scarlet, the salt breeze whipping through her hair, she is the beautif...

  • Across a Starlit Sea

    Highclyffe Hall's Chandlers - 2
    Love Spell: Candleglow

    SHE WAS CAUGHT IN A WHIRLWIND OF PASSION... TORN BETWEEN TWO MEN, TWO BROTHERS, AND TWO FATES As the wind tossed her tangled locks, Laura Prescott looked out into a future as bleak as the savage moors. The only daughter of a sea captain, Laura wa...



  • Heartland

    He was notorious and dangerous... She was primly proper and beautiful... With his six-shooter slung low on his hips and his bold, lazy smile, Slade Maverick looked as if he were riding to a showdown. Rachel Wilder couldn't believe the famous guns...

  • Beyond the Starlit Frost

    Chronicles of Tintagel - 2

    RHIANNON, AN ORPHANED HUNTRESS, RAISED BY GREAT-HEARTED STRANGERS Her hair was flame, her eyes smoldering topaz, her fearsome gift a power waiting to be freed... ISKANDER: A SON OF THE ROYAL BLOOD, HIS QUEST WAS HIS DUTY -- AND HIS GLORY At d...

  • Passion Moon Rising

    Chronicles of Tintagel - 1

    ILEANA: THE CHERISHED PRINCESS OF A BRAVE AND NOBLE LAND... Violet-eyed, silver-haired, she was graced with beauty, pride and passion... born with a great gift and a rare destiny... CAIN: A WARRIOR PRINCE WHO DENIED THE DANGER THAT COULD DESTROY HI...

  • Rainbow's End

    HIS DESIRE WAS FIERCER THAN A ROCKY MOUNTAIN STORM...HERS WAS RECKLESS AND DANGEROUSLY WILD No one ever tamed Josselyn "Red" O'Rourke -- not her hard-drinking, miner father, "Da," not the convent nuns who raised her, and certai...

  • Devil's Keep

    in Bewitching Love Stories

    Hired by a noble vampire to care for his son, a young governess' compassion for her handsome, tragic employer soon gives way to affection, desire... and heart soaring romance....

  • Desperado

    Araminta Winthrop was bride to a man she had never desired. Then a black-clad bandit crashed, guns blazing, into her wedding reception -- and she became the captive of the notorious Rigo de Castillo. A handsome outlaw who ran with Pancho Villa, he br...

  • Moonstruck

    in Night Magic

    A stunning Irish beauty is irresistibly drawn to the noble, tormented leader of a rival clan -- despite a generations-old curse that transforms him into something dark and mysterious when the moon is full....

  • Swan Road

    Standing on the cliff edge, Rhowenna let her black hair blow wildly in the sea wind, knowing the time for her destiny had come. Her gift of the Welsh "second sight" had brought a vivid vision of her future: one of a man far more passionate th...

  • The Bounty

    in Abduction and Seduction

    The dangerous desires of men and the seductive powers of women are explored by three of the romance genre's most celebrated writers in this captivating collection of short fiction....

  • Wildcat

    Man of the Month - 82
    Mills & Boon Desire - 955
    Silhouette Desire - 955

    MR. OCTOBER Wild Man: Morgan McCain His Mission: Remaining a bachelor! In His Way: Wild Cat Devlin, who just inherited half his business Morgan McCain had no intention of making his pretty new partner, Cat Devlin, feel welcome. But when she dem...



  • The Ice Dancers

    in New Year's Resolution: Husband

    10... 9... 8... He swirls you across the dance floor one last time... 7...6...5... You uncork champagne, don your party hat and grab your noisemaker... 4...3...2... He wraps his arms around you and you look into his eyes... 1... His lips meet your...

  • Dust Devil

    Years ago, their friendship had been private -- known only to themselves. Intense, passionate, dangerously good-looking Renzo Cassavettes wouldn't have fit in Sarah Kincaid's world. But one sultry summer afternoon, while the honeysuckle bloom...

  • The Jacaranda Tree

    KISSES UPON A WILDER SHORE... A sense of foreboding had gripped Arabella Darracott when she left England to join her guardian in Australia. Years before a gypsy fortune-teller had told her of a purple blossomed tree, a far-off shore, and a devil of ...

  • Hasten Down the Wind

    in A Spring Bouquet

    Elizabeth knows nothing of the Great Range Wars of the Old West...until she is suddenly swept back a hundred years in time...and kidnapped by the notorious Chaingo, a half-breed outlaw who rides with Billy the Kid. Is he just a cold-blooded desperado...

  • Hired Husband

    Fortune's Children - 1
    Fortune's Children (Mills & Boon) - 1
    Fortune's Children (Numbered) - 1

    Meet the Fortunes--a family whose legacy is greater than riches. Because where there's a will...there's a wedding! THE DEAL With eyes as dark as night and a gaze that laid all secrets bare, Nick Valkov was the kind of man any smart woman would av...

  • Glory Seekers

    On a sultry midsummer's night, while a full moon bathed the hazy Gulf Coast, a riptide was forming...pulling all caught in its path into the fury of the foaming sea. The noble Hampton family, with its legacy of sin and scandal, suffers the ultima...

  • The Lioness Tamer

    Man of the Month - 118
    Mills & Boon Desire - 1183
    Silhouette Desire - 1171

    MR. OCTOBER... Commanding corporate tycoon: Hell-bent on protecting his family's interests, Jordan Westcott never counted on crossing paths with the most beguiling beauty he'd ever met.... Virgin spitfire: Like a lioness protecting her lair, she wasn...

  • High Stakes

    WHEN WINNING IS EVERYTHING... LOSING CAN BE DEADLY. After years of questions, Angelina Marlowe was finally starting to uncover her family's secret. Her birth parents were dead, murdered by a ruthless consortium of powerful men, and the couple who'd ...

  • Destiny's Daughter

    When the mysterious package arrives on her doorstep, Bryony St. Blaze knows instinctively that her life is about to change forever. For inside, she finds her father's research, gathered from his years of devoted study to an ancient, magical book....

  • To Die For

    in Love is Murder

    Attending a society party was to be Paul and Lily Clothier's last act as a married couple, until their participation in a parlor game ended in murder -- with Paul as the leading suspect! Only together could they find justice -- and love....



  • The Love Knot

    Racing along the rocky coast of Cornwall, on a night fit for neither man nor beast, Verity Collier's coach is attacked by the notorious highwayman plaguing the Cornish countryside. The villain's commanding strength and cloak of dangerous sensuality h...

  • The Ninefold Key

    Since childhood, Ariana Levesque has been haunted by a strange, frightening dream about a handsome young man and a dark, foreboding castle. But after a Gypsy fortune-teller divines a perilous destiny, Ariana finds herself caught up in a dangerous int...

  • The Crystal Rose

    A stranger presses a letter into her hand...and unlocks the past she thought had been destroyed England, 1851: As she makes her way through London's crowded streets, Rose Windermere is nearly knocked to the ground by a man who whispers a dire...

  • Love Is Murder

    Attending a society party was to be Paul and Lily Clothier''s last act as a married couple, until their participation in a parlor game ended in murder--with Paul as the leading suspect! Only together could they find justice--and love....

  • From the Mists of Wolf Creek

    Nocturne - 65

    Sent away from Meadowsweet Farm after the tragic death of her mother, Hallie Muldoon has returned, determined to uncover the secrets that have kept her from her beloved childhood home. But some secrets are best left undisturbed.... Conjured by Hal...

  • Beneath a Sun-Gold Sky

    • / Historical Romance
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Award-Winning Books by Rebecca Brandewyne

Across a Starlit Sea
1989 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Gothic Romance
The Outlaw Hearts
1987 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Western Historical Romance
Upon a Moon-Dark Moor
1988 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Historical Gothic Romance


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Rebecca Brandewyne has published 35 books.

Rebecca Brandewyne does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, From the Mists of Wolf Creek, was published in June 2009.

The first book by Rebecca Brandewyne, No Gentle Love, was published in January 1980.

Yes. Rebecca Brandewyne has 3 series.
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