I loved that he owns a restaurant and she owns a bakery and they really bonded over that. Jessica comes off kinda childish in her interactions with Chase in the beginning and Chase wasn’t the most interesting guy from the start but as the story went on they both developed wonderfully and I ended up loving both of them. I had to warm up a bit to both Jessica and Chase. Brenda’s 2011 novel A Silken Thread is scheduled to be filmed with Debbie Allen attached as director in 2015.Įmail Brenda at or visit her on her website at .Ĥ stars. In 2010, she collaborated with Five Alive Films to turn her Truly Everlasting title into a feature film. In 2013, she was recognized by the mayor and the city of Jacksonville as being a Trailblazer in the literary field. In 2012, Brenda received the Romance Writers of America’s Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award-one of the highest literary awards a romance author can receive.

Since then she has had more than 100 novels and novellas published (the first African-American author to accomplish such a feat) and has over 3 million books in print.Ī native of Jacksonville, Florida, Brenda is the first African-American author to have a book published by Harlequin Desire and the first African-American romance author to make the New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller lists within the series romance genre. In 1994, Brenda Jackson’s first novel, Tonight and Forever, was released.

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