Jessica Hart
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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.
Jessica Hart won the 2005 RITA in the Best Traditional Romance category for her novel Christmas Eve Marriage. She was a 2009 RITA® finalist in the RITA®: Best Contemporary Series Romance for her book Last-Minute Proposal. Jessica Hart wrote her Ph.D thesis on 'The street and the perception of public space in York, 1476-1586 '. She is also known as Pamela Hartshorne, her real name.
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Books
- Adventure Begins, The - 1995
- American Hero Of Forbidden Love, The - 2016
- Appointment At The Altar - 2007
- Assignment: Baby - 2002
- Baby At Bushman's Creek - 2001
- Barefoot Bride - 2007
- Baronet's Wedding Engagement, The / Best Made Plans - 2017
- Beckoning Flame, The - 1994
- Billionaire's Blind Date - 2005
- Birthday Bride - 1998
- Blind-Date Proposal, The - 2003
- Bride For Barra Creek, A - 2001
- Bride For Hire - 1998
- Business Arrangement Bride - 2006
- Christmas Eve Marriage - 2004
- Cinderella's Wedding Wish - 2009
- Confessions Of A Bad Bridesmaid - 2014
- Contracted: Corporate Wife - 2005
- Convenient Fiancée, The - 1999
- Defiant Love - 1995
- Dreaming Of Dreams - 1996
- Fiance Wanted Fast! - 2003
- Finding You Beneath - 2016
- For His Baby's Sake - 2008
- Her Boss's Baby Plan - 2004
- Her Ready-Made Family - 2007
- Hitched! - 2013
- Honeymoon Prize, The - 2002
- Honeymoon With The Boss - 2009
- Industrialist Finds His Girl Friday - 2016
- Inherited: Twins! - 2002
- Juggling Briefcase & Baby - 2010
- Kissing Santa - 1999
- Last-Minute Proposal - 2008
- Legally Binding - 1995
- Love's Labyrinth - 1996
- Marriage Reunited - 2006
- Married For A Month - 2000
- Mistletoe Marriage - 2005
- Moonshadow Man - 1997
- Mr. (Not Quite) Perfect - 2014
- Newlyweds Of Convenience - 2008
- No Mistaking Love - 1993
- Oasis Of The Heart - 1995
- Oh-So-Sensible Secretary - 2010
- Ordinary Girl In A Tiara - 2011
- Outback Boss, City Bride - 2007
- Outback Bride - 1999
- Outback Husband - 2000
- Partner For Love - 1998
- Part-Time Wife - 1997
- Poseidon's Daughter - 1993
- Prince Charming -
- Promoted: To Wife And Mother - 2008
- Rebecca's Awakening - 2016
- Right Kind Of Man, The - 1996
- Secret Princess, The - 2011
- Sensible Wife, A - 1994
- Sweeter Prejudice, A - 1991
- Temporary Engagement - 1999
- Trouble With Love, The - 1992
- Under The Boss's Mistletoe - 2009
- Wedding At Waverley Creek - 2001
- Wedding Challenge, The - 2002
- We'll Always Have Paris - 2012
- Whirlwind Engagement, A - 2003
- Wife-To-Be - 1997
- Woman At Willagong Creek - 1992
- Working Girl - 1996
- Wounded Heart - 2016
Series/Related Titles
The Australians (multi-author series)
Baby On Board (multi-author series)
The Big Event (multi-author series)
Bridegroom Boss
Christmas Treats (multi-author series)
City Brides
Escape Around The World (multi-author series)
The Fun Factor (multi-author series)
Holding Out For A Hero (multi-author series)
In Her Shoes (multi-author series)
Marrying The Boss (multi-author series)
Nine To Five (multi-author series)
Outback Brides
- Outback Bride
- Outback Husband
- Baby At Bushman's Creek
- Wedding At Waverley Creek
- A Bride For Barra Creek
The Princess Swap
Ready For Baby (multi-author series)
Royal Wedding Invitations (multi-author series)
Sealed With A Kiss (multi-author series)
Tango (multi-author series)
To Have And To Hold (multi-author series)
Today's Woman (multi-author series)
Awards
- 2014 All About Romance Reader Award Winner - Best Category Romance, Mr. (Not Quite) Perfect
- 2006 RoNA Rose Winner, Contracted: Corporate Wife
- 2005 RITA Award Winner - Traditional Romance, Christmas Eve Marriage
Recognitions
- 2013 RITA Award Finalist - Short Contemporary Series Romance, We'll Always Have Paris
- 2009 RITA Award Finalist - Contemporary Series Romance, Last-Minute Proposal
