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.^[2]

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.^[3]

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".^[4]

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.^[5]

• 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

• 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

1. This Towering Passion, November 1978
2. Her Shining Splendor, July 1980
3. The Mistress, 1991

1. Bold Breathless Love, August 1981
2. Rash Reckless love, June 1982
3. Wild Willful Love, October 1982
4. Rich Radiant Love, June 1983

1. Lovesong, September 1985
2. Windsong, March 1986
3. Nightsong, September 1986

• Rapture, 1979