Sandra Lynn Cox Brown
Sandra Brown, New York Times Bestselling Author, at the 2022 Texas Book Festival.
Born	(1948-03-12) March 12, 1948 (age 76) Waco, Texas, U.S.
Pen name	Rachel Ryan, Laura Jordan, Erin St. Claire, Sandra Brown
Occupation	Novelist
Alma mater	Texas Christian University
Period	1981–present
Genre	Romance, suspense, thriller
Children	Ryan Brown, Rachel Brown
Website
http://www.SandraBrown.net/

Sandra Lynn Brown, née Cox (born March 12, 1948) 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.

Sandra Brown was born in Waco, Texas, and raised in Fort Worth. She majored in English at Texas Christian University (TCU) in Fort Worth, but left college in 1968 to marry.

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.^[1] Since then, she has published nearly 70 novels and had more than 50 New York Times bestsellers.^[2] 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.^[3] In 2016, her novel White Hot was turned into a Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Original movie titled, Sandra Brown's White Hot.^[4]

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.

On September 30, 2023 Brown announced on social media the finalizing of her divorce from her husband of fifty-five years, Michael Brown.

Originally Dell Candlelight Ecstasy Romances – Single Novels

• 1981 Love's Encore
• 1981 Love Beyond Reason
• 1982 Eloquent Silence
• 1982 A Treasure Worth Seeking
• 1983 Prime Time

Single novels

• 1982 Hidden Fires (Historical Romance)
• 1982 The Silken Web

Originally published as Harlequin/Silhouette Category Romances – Single Novels

• 1982 Not Even for Love
• 1983 Seduction by Design
• 1983 A Kiss Remembered
• 1983 A Secret Splendor
• 1984 Words of Silk
• 1984 Bittersweet Rain
• 1984 Tiger Prince
• 1985 Sweet Anger
• 1986 Above and Beyond
• 1986 Honor Bound
• 1987 Two Alone
• 1989 The Thrill of Victory

Astray & Devil Series

1. 1985 Led Astray
2. 1987 The Devil's Own

Bantam Doubleday Dell's Loveswept Category Romance Books

Bed & Breakfast Series

1. 1983 Breakfast in Bed (Originally Loveswept # 22)
2. 1984 Send No Flowers (Originally Loveswept # 51)

Coleman Family Saga Series

(Historical Romance)

1. 1985 Sunset Embrace
2. 1985 Another Dawn

Mason Sisters Series

1. 1987 Fanta C (Originally Loveswept # 217)
2. 1988 Adam's Fall (Originally Loveswept # 252)

Texas! Tyler Family Saga Series

1. 1990 Texas! Lucky
2. 1991 Texas! Chase
3. 1991 Texas! Sage

Single Title Romance Suspense/Thrillers

Omnibus

• Three Complete Novels: Mirror Image / Best Kept Secret / Slow Heat In Heaven (1992)
• Three Complete Novels: Texas Lucky! / Texas Chase! / Texas Sage!
• Crush / Hello Darkness (2006)
• Heaven's Price / Breakfast in Bed / Send No Flowers (2007)
• Tomorrow's Promise / Two Alone (2008)
• Led Astray / Devil's Own (2010)
• A Secret Splendor / Above and Beyond (2011)

• American Business Women's Association's Distinguished Circle of Success
• A.C. Greene Award
• Romance Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award
• International Thriller Writers Award, "Thrillermaster", 2008

• Sandra Brown's official homepage
• Sandra Brown at eHarlequin

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sandra Brown.

• Q&A With Sandra Brown AllYourTV.com
• Erin St. Claire and Sandra Brown at Fantastic Fiction
• Sandra Brown, Rachel Ryan, Erin St. Claire and Laura Jordan at the Internet Book List
• http://sandrabrown.net/books_search.php
• http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/sandra-brown/
• Sandra Brown's Official Wattpad Profile