Rochelle Alers


Rochelle Alers is an American writer of romance novels. She has also written under the pen names Susan James and Rena McLeary.

Biography

Rochelle Alers was born on August 7, 1943 in Manhattan, New York, where she was also raised. After earning degrees in sociology and psychology, she taught pre-school for a time before entering the business world.
Alers began writing her first novel in 1984, after a decade of reading romance novels. She finished her first manuscript, the novel Hideway, in 1985. After several rejections because her work did not fit the formula of a category romance novel, Alers perfected her style and was first published by Doubleday Books in 1988.
Almost two million copies of her novels are now in print, and they have regularly appeared on the Waldenbooks, Borders, and Essence bestseller lists. She has been awarded the Gold Pen Award, the Emma Award, the Vivian Stephens Award for Excellence in Romance Writing, the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award, and the Zora Neale Hurston Literary Award. She writes full-time currently after retiring from her job as a Community Liaison Specialist for a state funded abuse program in Long Island.

As Rochelle Alers

Single novels

The Hideaway Series has started to be reissued on the Harlequin brand.
Prequels
  1. Best-Kept Secrets Reissue 2010
    First Generation
  2. Hideaway Reissue 2009
  3. Hidden Agenda Reissue 2009
  4. Vows Reissue 2010
  5. Heaven Sent Reissue 2010
    Daughters and Sisters Trilogy
  6. Harvest Moon Reissue 2011
  7. Just Before Dawn
  8. Private Passions
  9. Stranger in My Arms
  10. Breakaway
    Sons and Brothers Trilogy
  11. No Compromise Reissue 2009
  12. Homecoming
  13. Renegade
  14. Secret Agenda

    The Whitfields of New York

  15. Long Time Coming
  16. The Sweetest Temptation
  17. Taken By Storm

    The Best Men Trilogy

  18. Man of Fate
  19. Man of Fortune
  20. Man of Fantasy

    The Blackstones of Virginia

  21. The Long Hot Summer
  22. Very Private Duty
  23. Beyond Business

    The Eatons

  24. Bittersweet Love,
  25. Sweet Deception,
  26. Sweet Dreams,
  27. Twice The Temptation,
  28. Sweet Persuasions,
  29. Sweet Destiny,

    Wainwright Legacy

  30. Because of You,
  31. Here I Am,

    Collections

  32. More Than Just Words, Vol. 6,

    Anthologies in collaboration

Single novels