Sandra Brown


Sandra Lynn Brown, née Cox is an American bestselling author of romantic novels and thriller suspense novels. Brown has also published works under the pen names of Rachel Ryan, Laura Jordan, and Erin St. Claire.

Early life and education

Sandra Brown was born in Waco, Texas, and raised in Fort Worth. She majored in English at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, but left college in 1968 to marry her husband, Michael Brown, a former television news anchor and award-winning documentarian, for Dust to Dust. They have one son, Ryan.

Career

After her marriage, Brown worked for KLTV in Tyler as a weathercaster, then returned to the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex area where she became a reporter for WFAA-TV's version of PM Magazine.
Brown started her writing career in 1981 after her husband dared her to. Since then, she has published nearly 70 novels and had more than 50 New York Times bestsellers. In 2008, she was presented with an honorary doctorate of humane letters from her alma mater, TCU.
Her novel French Silk was made into a movie, released in 1994, for television. Susan Lucci, Shari Belafonte, and Lee Horsley starred. In 2016, her novel White Hot was turned into a Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Original movie titled, Sandra Brown's White Hot.
In 2007, she contributed to Court TV's series Murder By The Book, about the murder of Betty Gore in Wylie, Texas, on June 13, 1980.
Her book Seeing Red was published on August 17, 2017.
In August 2018, her new book Tailspin published by Grand Central landed at #7 on The New York Times bestsellers list.

As Rachel Ryan

;Originally Dell Candlelight Ecstasy Romances – Single Novels
;Single novels
;Originally published as Harlequin/Silhouette Category Romances – Single Novels
;Astray & Devil Series
  1. 1985 Led Astray
  2. 1987 The Devil's Own

    As Sandra Brown

;Bantam Doubleday Dell's Loveswept Category Romance Books
;Bed & Breakfast Series
  1. 1983 Breakfast in Bed
  2. 1984 Send No Flowers
;Coleman Family Saga Series
  1. 1985 Sunset Embrace
  2. 1985 Another Dawn
;Mason Sisters Series
  1. 1987 Fanta C
  2. 1988 Adam's Fall
;Texas! Tyler Family Saga Series
  1. 1990 Texas! Lucky
  2. 1991 Texas! Chase
  3. 1991 Texas! Sage
;Single Title Romance Suspense/Thrillers
;Omnibus