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Rebecca Brandewyne

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Rebecca Brandewyne
BornMary Rebecca Wadsworth
(1955-03-04) March 4, 1955 (age 69)
Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.
OccupationNovelist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Period1980–present
GenreRomance
SpouseGary Brock (divorced), John Cox (divorced)
ChildrenShane Brock
Website
www.brandewyne.com

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

Biography

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Personal life

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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. After divorcing she married again, to John Cox, from whom she is also now divorced.[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 it 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

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Brandewyne has written over thirty consecutive bestselling titles.[1] She has won numerous awards form Affaire de Coeur 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

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Single novels

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  • 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

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

Chandlers of Highclyffe Hall

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

Chronicles of Tintagel

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

Omnibus in collaboration

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References and sources

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  1. ^ a b c Rebecca Brandewyne at eHarlequin, June 9, 2012
  2. ^ "Rebecca Brandewyne at FantasticFiction". June 9, 2012.
  3. ^ Kirch, Claire (August 8, 2006). "AuthorHouse Ordered to Pay Up". Publishers Weekly. Archived from the original on March 4, 2009. Retrieved November 8, 2009.
  4. ^ "Rebecca Brandewyne's website". June 9, 2012. Archived from the original on February 16, 2012.