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About Jessica Hart
Jessica Hart was born in Scotland, where her mother continues to live. Jessica's earliest dreams were about sitting on a sand dune in the Sahara, working in the Outback, hacking her way through a jungle or bouncing along a dusty track in a battered old Land Rover rather than writing a book. Her itchy feet took her from Afghanistan to Australia, from Algeria to Belize, and Cameroon to Indonesia, with various stops en route, and she loved it all.

Because she was always thinking about where she wanted to go next, she never quite managed a proper career. Instead she had a haphazard series of jobs around the world. Her last 'proper' job was on the foreign newsdesk of a national newspaper. Before that, she was on expedition in West Africa, cooked on an outback cattle station, taught English as a foreign language, was production assistant for a theatre company and research assistant for a publisher of restaurant guides and filled in the gaps between by working as a secretary, waitress, chambermaid and dishwasher. Regular readers will probably recognize how often she has drawn on her wide but lowly working experience for inspiration when it comes to setting and plot!

Now Jessica leads a rather more staid existence, dividing her time between city life in York and a country cottage in Wiltshire where her partner, John, lives. This involves a lot of driving up and down the motorway, which takes up a lot of time. After nine years of research, Jessica finally completed a Ph.D. on York's later medieval and early modern streets in 2004, but still never seems to have enough time to get everything done. When she's not writing romance, she is usually busy doing something connected with food (cooking, meeting friends for a drink, eating, gossiping over coffee etc) or walking her Westie, Mungo, but she also loves history and gardening and reading and travelling, and there are still times, too, when she yearns for wider horizons.

Jessica has written over 45 books for Harlequin Romance, and won the Romance Writers of America's prestigious RITA award for the best traditional romance in 2005. In 2006, she was awarded the Romance Prize for the best category romance by the UK's Romantic Novelists' Association, and is short-listed for the same award in 2007.
 
New and Forthcoming Hardbacks

Newlyweds Of Convenience
Newlyweds Of Convenience

Last-Minute Proposal
Last-Minute Proposal

New and Forthcoming Paperbacks

Newlyweds Of Convenience
Newlyweds Of Convenience

Christmas Dreams: Winter Wedding / Kissing Santa / The Baby Discovery
Christmas Dreams
Winter Wedding / Kissing Santa / The Baby Discovery

Last-Minute Proposal
Last-Minute Proposal

Novels
Moonshadow ManWife to BeKissing SantaBride for Hire
Birthday BrideMarried for a MonthThe Honeymoon PrizeHer Boss's Baby Plan
Christmas Eve MarriageMistletoe MarriageMarriage ReunitedHer Ready-Made Family
Barefoot BrideOutback Boss, City BridePromoted: To Wife And MotherNewlyweds Of Convenience
Last-Minute Proposal
 
Omnibus
Weddings Down UnderCity GirlsAll in a DayHere Comes the Bride
Twins Come Too!Outback ProposalsBrides for ChristmasWedding Vows
Whose Baby?Bringing up BabyMothers Wanted: Hot Summer Bride / Brand-New Father, Brand-New Family / For His Baby's Sake
 
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