Scandalous Secrets: Secrets And Lies: The Secret Affair (The Westmorelands) / The Real Rio D'Aquila / Secrets, Lies & Lullabies

Brenda Jackson (born February 2, 1953, in Jacksonville, Florida) is an American author of contemporary romance novels. She writes several multi-generational family series, including the Westmorelands, the Madaris family, and the Steele family. Her debut novel, Tonight and Forever, was published in 1995, and she was the first African-American author to have a novel published in Harlequin's Silhouette Desire line. In October 2013 she became the first African American author to publish 100 novels....

In one form or another, Heidi Betts has been a storyteller for most of her life—whether entertaining her friends, working to improve her grades or attempting to get out of trouble. So it's no surprise, really, that she grew up to be a writer. She began her love affair with the romance genre in junior high, where she used to sneak romance novels into study hall when she should have been doing her homework, and it didn't take long for her to decide that she wanted to write a few romances of her ow...

Sandra Marton was born on June 30. Before she could read, she made up poems and her mother wrote them down for her. She wrote her first story when she was seven years old while she was still in elementary school, and began to dream of becoming a writer. Her doting parents told her she'd be a writer someday and she believed them. In high school and college, she wrote dark poetry nobody but her boyfriend understood, though looking back, she suspects he was just being kind. As a wife and mother, sh...