FICTION · GENERAL
Sandra Chastain
Also known as: Sandra Chastain, Jenna Darcy
Sandra Chastain was born on 1936 in Wadley, Georgia, 100 miles northwest of Savannah. As a little girl, she created fantasy lives for her paper dolls, and then she discovered Nancy Drew. Sandra wrote her first novel with a friend when she was 10 years old, The Mystery of the Green Necklace. Some four decades later, when her three daughters had gone off on their own, she returned to writing and was soon busy with writing, in addition to working with her husband in their veterinary practice in Smyrna, Georgia. Before long she was writing full time. Published since 1988, she writes historical novels for Bantam, short contemporary romances for Harlequin, and southern women's fiction for Bellebooks. To date, she has produced over 50 works, including her first fairy tale, The Tiniest Fairy In the Kingdom, published by Bellebooks. She writes under pennames Jenna Darcy and Allie Jordan as well as in her own name. Sandra has won many honors and recognitions from her industry.
The cabin was cool and dark, smelling of wood.
— from Sweetwater
Most acclaimed
GABRIEL'S OUTLAW
1994
Assigned to ride shotgun and protect a pouch of gold en route to the capitol building during Georgia's Gold Rush Days Celebration, Gabriel St. Clair groaned--and tried to get out of it! He'd be sharing the trip, and very close quarters, with Jessie James, the spitfire saloon singer whose family had been feuding with his for years... and he'd never forgotten the gorgeous daredevil whose smoky kisses had burned him long ago! His Sinful Blue Eyes Saw Straight to Her Soul Gabe had been her first love, her wish on a star, but Jessie had lost more than her heart when Gabe had left the mountain. Seeing him again awakened wicked longings and Jessie responded with abandon to the man who'd always known how to drive her wild. Could a rebel with a cause and her favorite fallen angel together solve an age-old mystery and join their dreams in a lovers' sanctuary?
Raven and the Cowboy
1996
He first came to her in a dream: a sleek and tawny cougar with the power to protect her. So when Raven Alexander awoke to find herself lying beside the rugged stranger, she wasn't afraid. He might be an unruly cowboy with a checkered past but Raven believed the spirit guides had sent him to help her find the sacred Arapaho treasure. But Tucker Farrell didn't trust women, even exotic innocents like Raven. And though he agreed to join her quest, Raven feared it was because of the gold. Now, when the last thing in the world she should do is fall in love, Raven finds herself fighting an impossible battle...caught between her duty to her people and the passionate longings of her heart.