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Sophie Jordan/Sharie Kohler

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Houston Bay Area is dedicated to encouraging and supporting the romance writers, both published and aspiring, in its membership.

 

Sophie Jordan took her adolescent daydreaming one step further and penned her first historical romance in the back of her high school Spanish class -- much to the entertainment of her fellow classmates. Needless to say, that dog-eared spiral got more attention than the teacher.

Her passion for writing led her to pursue a degree in English and History -- the perfect fodder for an aspiring novelist. In 2003 she decided it was time to “put up or shut up”, and walked into her first Romance Writers of America meeting. Twenty-two months later HarperCollins/Avon called to offer her a multi-book contract.

A former high school English teacher, Sophie resides in Houston with her family. When she's not writing or reading, she divides her time between inventing what she likes to call culinary masterpieces -- her husband won't always agree -- and visiting her family's pecan ranch in the Texas Hill Country.

 

Sophie's Recent and Upcoming Books

Once Upon a Wedding Night

Once Upon a Wedding Night
August 2006
Avon
ISBN: 0061122203

An innocent deception…

Lady Meredith Brookshire has every right to Oak Run. Now that she's suddenly husbandless and penniless, where else would she, her addled father, and spinster aunt reside? Yet who should appear but Nicholas Caulfield, the new Brookshire heir, claiming the estate is rightfully his by law. The brute is as arrogant as he is handsome--besides, he's supposed to be dead. And the only plan resourceful Meredith can devise to save her family from homelessness is a desperate scheme that may lead her to salvation or ruin …and the bed of the man she has vowed to hate.

A reluctant aristocrat, Nick does not trust this fiery, infuriating chit whom he suspects of subterfuge--yet who bewitches him with her innocent green eyes. The sooner he can get this tempting beauty married off to some stodgy old blueblood--and off his hands for good--the better. There is one slight problem, however:

Nick can't bear the thought of her wedding night to any man but him.

 

Honors and Awards ~ 2006

  • Once Upon a Wedding Night -- Rhapsody Book Club Featured Alternate

Sophie's Web Site

www.sophiejordan.net