a.k.a. Jackie Summers
Best-selling author, Jackie Manning, writing under the pseudonym, Jackie Summers, began her debut with Embrace the Dawn (Harlequin Historical #260), a 1995 March Madness promotion of Harlequin Historicals, which showcase the years’ most talented new writers. Her current and future books for Harlequin are being issued under the author’s own name of Jackie Manning.
Taming
the DukeThere was comfort in her touch...
A kind of healing that brought peace and stirrings of love where Dalton Warfield never expected to find them--within himself! But could he truly surrender to the graciousness that was Alicia Spencer--when he was the Duke of Wexton and she the outcast by the Ton?
Alicia Spencer's first foray into Society had brought about her reputation's ruin--all through the scheming of one dowager duchess. Now her healing talents with horses had bound her to a passionate bargain with her enemy's son--Dalton Warfield, a man who'd courted her gift yet captured her heart...!
REVIEWS:
There's a very serious problem with Jackie Manning's books- they end!
This story flows so beautifully that you don't realize how many twists and
hairpin turns the story really takes until everything comes together at the end.
The characters are enchanting. The horses are absolutely regal. And, like it or
not, Ms. Manning even makes you feel compassion toward the "bad guys"
before the story's end. TAMING THE DUKE is just that. It's a titillating tale, a
moving masterpiece, a searing story...well, I think you get my point- it's
GREAT!
- Kim Jacobson, Scribe & Quill
This was an absolute WONDERFUL book! I had a hard time putting down because I
had to keep finding out what was gonna happen next. If you're a lover of the
Regency era, get this book!
- Elena Oppedisano, Amazon.com
Silver
Hearts (3/99)
Harlequin Historical #454
ISBN 0-373-29054-3
(Click on the ISBN to order online)
Nevada, 1867
Luke Savage was not a marryin' man. The funny thing was--Noelle Bellencourt just happened to come from a long line of folks with tricks up their sleeves. Certainly there was more to this Eastern miss than met the eye, for he suspected she had the power to transform his wandering ways!
Noelle Bellencourt had come West to find family and fulfillment--and instead found herself stranded in the desert, arguing at riflepoint with Luke Savage. But could this mysterious stranger truly be the one to make all her troubles disappear?
"Silver Hearts is pure magic!" - Debbie Macomber
"The sparks that fly between the hero and heroine are hot
enough to ignite a
blaze of major proportions." - The Fiction Works
A
Wish for Nicholas (1/98)
Harlequin Historical #398
ISBN 0-373-28998-7
(Click on the ISBN to order online)
It has been on Amazon.Com’s bestseller list for Romance/Historical/England through
this date, and appeared on Romantic Times' Recommended Reading list in February
1998’s issue.
London, 1666
Still, Becky Forester sang her own kind of siren song of home, family and forever—and Captain Nick Sinclair, though wedded to the ocean's adventure, found himself succumbing to its lure...!
Newly knighted naval hero Nicholas Sinclair had taken command of her
beloved Thornwood Hall, and Becky Forester vowed to end his interference. But the longer
he stayed, the more the reason appeared to be the capture of her very heart and soul...!
Here's a review!
Don't miss Jackie's booksignings! Here's an itinerary.
Jackie is currently on deadline for her next book, Heaven on Earth, a historical Regency, which will be scheduled for release at a future date.
Accomplishments:
A member of Romance Writers of America since 1985, Jackie remembers enduring the eight-hour trip each month to her, then, nearest R.W.A. chapter to learn the craft of commercial fiction.
She’s a ready speaker on behalf of the industry, as well as teaching workshops throughout the country. With Harlequin author Marge Smith, Jackie developed Writing The Dreaded Synopsis, which they presented at the Over The Rainbow Conference in West Palm Beach, FL.; the Silken Sands Conference in Gulf Shores, AL.; the Moonlight and Magnolia Conference in Atlanta, GA.; and RWA National Conference in Dallas, TX. With Silhouette author Carol Prescott, they presented the Shameless Hussy’s Guide To Self-Promotion at New England Writer’s Conference in Boston, MA. Also, Jackie gave Stressing Out Your Characters, and Queries, Covers, And Then Some at Silken Sands Conference, And The Middle Of The Book Blues at the New England Writers’ Chapter. How To Write When Your World Is Falling Apart was Jackie’s first on-line workshop with GEnie, the Romance Writers Exchange. Through the adult education department in Central Maine, Jackie’s classes on how to write commercial fiction continue to be very popular. She is also one of the leading instructors in writing workshops at Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance based in Brunswick, ME.
Prior to writing full-time, Jackie had managed her own tax accounting agency, with over three hundred clients, many of whom she has recruited into devoted fans of the romance genre. When she isn’t writing or presenting workshops, Jackie is judging writing contests, researching places for future books, and hanging out with writer pals. She lives with her husband, Tom, and their two spoiled-rotten dogs in a one-hundred-and-fifty-year-old colonial in Maine. The couple are avid rose growers, whose combined collection of weighty blue ribbons and tales of braggadocios keep their neighbors and Maine’s black flies away.
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