J.R. Ward

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Born:
Jan. 20, 1969

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Jessica Rowley Pell Bird was born on 1969 in Massachusetts, USA. She is the daughter of Maxine F. and W. Gillette Bird, Jr. She began writing as a child, penning her thoughts in diaries as well as inventing short stories. She read her first Harlequin Presents novel in a rose garden when she was in her teens. She was hooked immediately. By the time she went to college, she had boxes and boxes of Harlequins and Silhouettes. Every year, her mother would ask why all those books had to live in the house and Jess would reply that if even one of them disappeared she would know. (She'd catalogued them.)

Jess finished her first romance manuscript the summer before her freshman year of college. She attended Smith College and graduated with a double major in history and art history. She then received a law degree from Albany Law School. Shortly after that, she began working in the healthcare industry in Boston. She spent many years as one of the premier medical center’s Chief of Staff. While working as a lawyer in Boston, she completed two novels more and started a number of partials. In 2001, Bird married John Neville Blakemore …

Books by J.R. Ward

J.R. Ward: Dark Lover

Dark Lover

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J.R. Ward: Lover Avenged (Paperback, 2009, Piatkus)

Lover Avenged

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J.R. Ward: Lover Enshrined (Paperback, 2008, Signet)

Lover Enshrined

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J.R. Ward: Lover Unbound (Paperback, 2007, Signet)

Lover Unbound

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J.R. Ward: Lover Awakened (Paperback, 2010, Piatkus)

Lover Awakened

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J.R. Ward: Blood Kiss (2015, Little, Brown Book Group Limited) No rating

Blood Kiss

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J.R. Ward: Lover Eternal (Hardcover, 2012, NAL, Berkley)

Lover Eternal

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J.R. Ward: Lover mine (2010, Piatkus)

Lover mine

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J.R. Ward: Lover Revealed (2007, Onyx)

Lover Revealed

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J.R. Ward: Claimed (Paperback, 2021, Pocket Books)

Claimed

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J.R. Ward: Lover Mine (2010)

Lover Mine

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