Jessica Steele
Jessica Steele was born on May 9, 1933 in the elegant Warwickshire town of Royal Leamington Spa. She has two super brothers, Colin and George, and a lovely sister, Elizabeth. She was a delicate child and missed a lot of school. In fact, she left school at aged 14, when she was diagnosed as having tuberculosis. At 16, she started work as a junior clerk. In 1967, Jessica married with her husband, Peter and within a very short space of time they had moved from her hometown to the lovely area where they now live. Their house is built into the side of a hill, and has beautiful views over more hills and valleys. Her brothers and her sister are very close and she has plenty of nephews and nieces to make up for the fact that she and her husband have no children of their own. Both she and her husband are more than a little dog-oriented, and their current dog is a Staffordshire bull terrier named Florence. Florence is gorgeous. She loves everybody but, since she is 40 pounds of dynamite and would hurl her boisterous self at everyone she meets - given half a chance - she has to be restrained (as much as possible). She is fun.
Her husband spurred Jessica on to her writing career, giving her every support while she did what she considers her five-year apprenticeship (the rejection years) while learning how to write. She published her first books in 1979. Jessica has tried using a typewriter, but it just doesn't work for her. She is much happier writing in longhand, and in actual fact has a dozen or so fountain pens filled and ready to go at the start of any one session. A friend has a secretarial agency and, after deciphering Jessica's writing, returns an immaculately typed manuscript. To gain authentic background for her books, she has travelled and researched in Greece, Russia, Egypt, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Hong Kong, China and Japan.
Books
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9 to 5
A First Time for Everything
After Hours
Agenda: attraction!
Algo Personal
A Most Eligible Bachelor
A Most Suitable Wife
An Accidental Engagement
A Nine-To-Five Affair
A Paper Marriage
A Paper Marriage High Society Brides
A Pretend Engagement
A Professional Marriage (9 To 5)
A Promise to Dishonour
A sua mulher
A Suitable Husband
Au Jardin de L'Harmonie
A Wedding Worth Waiting For
A Wife in Waiting
Bachelor in need
Bachelor in Need (Haralequin II)
Bachelor In Need (The Marriage Pledge)
Bachelor's Family
Bachelor'S Family (Kids & Kisses)
Bachelor's Family - Mdp95
Bachelor's Wife
Bad Neighbours
Beyond her control
Bond of Vengeance
Business Engagement
But Know Not Why
Cita Para Cuatro
Contract Husbands
Croire en toi (Collection Harlequin)
Destined to Meet
Devil in Disguise
Devil in Disquise
Diki tou gia panta
Dishonest Woman
Distrust Her Shadow
DUELO DE CORAZONES - DUEL OF HEARTS (Jazmin, 57)
Enas arravonas ainigma
Esa mujer!
Facade
Falling for Her Convenient Husband
Farewell to Love
Feisty Fiancee (The Marriage Pledge)
Feisty Fiancee (The Marriage Pledge) - Larger Print (The Marriage Pledge)
Flight of Discovery
Fortunes of Love
Frozen enchantment
Gallant antagonist
Greek text
ha-Tsayar ha-zar
Heartless Pursuit
Her Boss's Marriage Agenda
Her Hand In Marriage
Hidden Heart
His Pretend Mistress
His Woman
Hostage to Dishonour
Hostile Engagement
Hungarian Rhapsody
Imprudent challenge
Incontro con il destino
Innocent Abroad
Intimate enemies
Island of Escape / Stormy Affair / Hostile Engagement
Italian invader
Italian Invader (Harlequin Romance, No. 3327)
Japanese text
[Japanese title]
[Japanese translation]
Jessica's First Prayer
[Korean title]
[Korean translation]
Magic of His Kiss
Marriage in mind
Marriage In Mind (The Marriage Pledge)
Married in a Moment
Married In A Moment (Whirlwind Weddings)
Married In A Moment (Whirlwind Weddings) Larger Print
Misleading Encounter
Misleidende ontmoeting
Motivos ocultos
Motvillig arving
Mujer infiel
No Holds Barred
No honourable compromise
No quiet refuge
Part-Time Marriage
Part - Time Marriage (To Have And To Hold)
Part - Time Marriage (To Have And To Hold) - Larger Print
Passport to Happiness
Price to be met
Pride's Master
Professional Marriage
Promise Of A Family
Rapsodia Hungara
Relative Strangers
Relative Values
Reluctant Relative
Runaway from Love
Ruthless in all
Sister Secret (Family Ties)
So Near, So Far
Spring Girl
Su mujer
Su Secretaria Mas Personal
Temporary Girlfriend
Tethered liberty
The Bachelor's Bargain
The boss and his secretary
The Boss And His Secretary
The Feisty Fiancee
The Girl from Honeysuckle Farm
The icicle heart
The Marriage Business
The Other Brother
The Other Woman
The sister secret
The Trouble With Trent!
Tomorrow - come soon
To Stay Forever
Tuhkimo vai Kultakutri
Turbulent covenant
Una Gran Promesa
Una promessa impossibile
Unexpected Engagement
Unexpected Engagement (Holding Out For A Hero) Larger Print
Unfriendly Alliance
Unfriendly Proposition
Vacancy
Wedding Worth Waiting For (White Weddings) - Larger Print (Harlequin Romance 415
West of Bohemia
When the Loving Stopped
With His Ring
With His Ring (Simply The Best)
With His Ring (Simply The Best) Larger Print
Without Knowing Why
Without love
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