Sabrina Jeffries
Sabrina Jeffries, born in 1958, is an American romance novelist who also writes under the names Deborah Martin and Deborah Nicholas. Entertainment Weekly calls her a leading voice in historical romance. When she was seven, her parents became missionaries and the family moved to Thailand for 11 years. She began making up stories at age 12.
She earned a Ph.D. in English, with a dissertation on James Joyce. While teaching as a visiting assistant professor at Tulane, she tried to turn her dissertation into an academic book, but she found writing romance more enjoyable. She left academia to work as a technical writer, writing novels at night. After many rejections, her second book was finally picked up by Leisure.
Jeffries has published historical romances as Sabrina Jeffries and Deborah Martin, and contemporary paranormal romantic suspense as Deborah Nicholas. Her novels Beware a Scot’s Revenge and Let Sleeping Rogues Lie became New York Times bestsellers. She lives in Cary, North Carolina with her husband and their son Nick.
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