About
Famous for her dozens of suspenseful romance novels, she published bestselling works such as A Kiss Remembered; Temperatures Rising; French Silk; and Mean Streak. She won both a Romance Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award and an International Thriller Writers Thrillermaster Award.
Before Fame
After briefly studying at Texas Christian University, she worked as a Texas-based television weathercaster and reporter. She published her first novel, Love's Encore, in 1981.
Trivia
Her pen names include Erin St. Claire, Laura Jordan, and Rachel Ryan.
Family Life
In the late 1960s, she married broadcast journalist and documentary filmmaker Michael Brown. The couple raised children named Ryan and Rachel.
Associated With
She is a contemporary of fellow American romance writer Janet Dailey.
