Rebecca Brandewyne

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Rebecca Brandewyne née Wadsworth (born March 4, 1955 in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States) is an American bestselling writer of romance novels. Brandewyne has been published in multiple languages in over 60 countries.^[1]

Biography[]

Personal life[]

Born Mary Rebecca Wadsworth on March 4, 1955 in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, to a large family, Brandewyne grew up in Kansas. She has a sister. She married Gary Brock, and had a son, Shane Brock, then divorced. She married an Englishman, John Cox, from whom she is now divorced. She now lives with her son.^[2]

In August 2006, a Kansas trial court ordered self-publishing company AuthorHouse to pay $240,000 in punitive damage as well as $230,000 in actual damage to Brandewyne and her parents for publishing a book by her ex-husband that was "harmful" and libelous of them. AuthorHouse was also ordered to pay $20,000 each to Brandewyne's parents for the damage. Although the court acknowledged that AuthorHouse employed a business model that placed a degree of responsibility for the content of works upon the authors, in this case they found that AuthorHouse had failed to act when it was informed that the book might include libelous content.^[3]

Brandewyne has a Bachelors in Journalism, with minors in history and music, and a Masters in Communication.^[1]

Writing career[]

Brandewyne has written over thirty consecutive bestselling titles.^[1] She has won numerous awards form and Romantic Times magazines. Brandewyne has been named one of Love's Leading Ladies and has been inducted into Romantic Times BOOKreviews Hall of Fame.^[4]

Bibliography[]

Single novels[]

• No Gentle Love (1980)
• Forever My Love (1982)
• Rose of Rapture (1984)
• The Outlaw Hearts (1986)
• Desire in Disguise (1987)
• Heartland (1990)
• Rainbow's End (1991)
• Desperado (1992)
• Swan Road (1994)
• The Jacaranda Tree (1995)
• Wildcat (1995)
• Dust Devil (1996)
• Presumed Guilty (1996)
• Hired Husband (1996)
• Glory Seekers (1997)
• The Lioness Tamer (1998)
• High Stakes (1999)
• Destiny's Daughter (2001)
• The Love Knot (2003)
• To Die For (2003)
• The Ninefold Key (2004)
• The Crystal Rose (2006)
• From the Mists of Wolf Creek (2009)

Aguilar's Fate[]

1. Love Cherish Me (1983)
2. And Gold Was Ours (1984)

Chandlers of Highclyffe Hall[]

1. Upon a Moon Dark Moor (1988)
2. Across a Starlit Sea (1989)

Chronicles of Tintagel[]

1. Passion Moon Rising (1988)
2. Beyond the Starlit Frost (1991)

Omnibus in collaboration[]

• Bewitching Love Stories (1992) (with Shannon Drake, and Christina Skye)
• Night Magic (1993) (with Shannon Drake, and )
• Abduction and Seduction (1995) (with Joan Johnston and Diana Palmer)
• New Year's Resolution: Husband (1995) (with and Anne Stuart)
• A Spring Bouquet (1996) (with Jo Beverley, Janet Dailey and Debbie Macomber)
• The Bounty / A Little Texas Two-Step (2002) (with Peggy Moreland)
• Winter Nights (2002) (with , Joan Hohl and Ann Major)
• Love Is Murder (2003) (with Maureen Child and Linda Winstead Jones)
• At the Edge (2003) (with and Elizabeth Lowell)
• Hired Husband / Millionaire and the Cowgirl (2008) (with Lisa Jackson)

References and sources[]