Jeanne Hines

Jeanne Hines ( July 29, 1922 in West Virginia - August 23, 2014) was an American writer of gothic novels using her real name and romance novels as Valerie Sherwood and Rosamond Royal.

Biography

Jeanne Hines was born in Moorefield, West Virginia, the daughter of Llewellyn Brown McNeill and Bess Heiskell McNeil. She grew up in a traditional family, but dreamed of doing something more than marrying and becoming a housewife. She married in 1943 Edward Thomas Hines (March 2, 1914 - Dec. 8, 2001) and moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, but she was writing while she traveled with her husband between their five mansions along the East Coast.

She worked as a reporter and fashion magazine illustrator before turning to fiction and becoming a novelist. Published since 1973, she penned gothic novels under her real name and romance novels as Valerie Sherwood and Rosamond Royal until 1991. She won the Romantic Times 1987-1988 Career Achievement Award in the category of "historical adventure".

When author Chris Marie Green (aka Crystal Green), was 19, she wrote a fan letter to Hines, and the historical author answered the gushing missive and inspired her to write her first romance.

Bibliography

As Jeanne Hines

Single novels

The Slashed Portrait, 1973

Tidehawks, 1974

Talons of the Hawk, 1975

Bride of Terror, 1976

Scarecrow House, 1976

The Legend of Witchwynd, 1976

The Keys to Queenscourt, 1976

The Third Wife, 1977

As Valerie Sherwood

Single novels

This Loving Torment, August 1977

These Golden Pleasures, November 1977

Lovely Lying Lips, December 1983

Born to Love, June 1984

To Love a Rogue, October 1987

Her Crowning Glory, 1988

Lisbon, September 1989

Angel Series

This Towering Passion, November 1978

Her Shining Splendor, July 1980

The Mistress, 1991

Love Series

Bold Breathless Love, August 1981

Rash Reckless love, June 1982

Wild Willful Love, October 1982

Rich Radiant Love, June 1983

Song Series

Lovesong, September 1985

Windsong, March 1986

Nightsong, September 1986

As Rosamond Royal

Rapture, 1979

References and sources

1922 births

2014 deaths

20th-century American novelists

20th-century American women writers

American romantic fiction writers

People from Moorefield, West Virginia

Novelists from West Virginia

American women novelists

Women romantic fiction writers

Writers from Charlotte, North Carolina

Novelists from North Carolina

21st-century American women