Jeanette Cooper

Interests

I have many interests such as gardening, cooking, shopping, reading, and watercolor painting, but my priority interest is writing. Writing is the blessing that keeps my life filled now that I'm in retirement, and nothing brings me greater joy than watching characters come alive before my eyes on the monitor screen.

(It's really interesting how one thinks they know what they're going to write, but the characters actually write themselves--for the most part developing their own personalities according to their role and the conflicts they deal with in the book.)

Books

Wall of Color (ISBN:1-4241-2441-7) was inspired by a young biracial student in Jeanette's fifth grade class whose confidences gave Jeanette a look into a child’s pain arising from the devastation of rejection. It is an ethnic romance novel historically set in New Orleans (1953), and richly unfurls with deep human passions, as young Rosemarie Delrio searches for identity in a segregated society. Wall of Color is a story that will sweep you back in time and touch your humanity with the conflicts in Rosemarie's life as she falls desperately in love with a biracial man while engaged to a white man. While Rosemarie tries to unravel the chaos in her life, the suspense of all the battles she must fight will keep you turning pages.

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Conquered Heart (ISBN:1-4241-3887-6) is a historical romance set in Anglo Saxon England. This novel was inspired by Jeanette’s love of English history, its special appeal coming from the days of knights and chivalry. The violence, conflicts, and passion of the period offer abundant inspiration. Conquered Heart is a passionate love story woven with breath-taking suspense. When Edreia becomes the personal prize of Mikkel, captain of the Norman army, she struggles between hate and love as her wanton heart betrays her in a tempest of passion and lust with her captor that will leave a trail of conflicts and unexpected danger from enemies who want to murder her.

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When Justice is Served (ISBN: 1-59824-376-4) is a romantic suspense novel packed with drama and excitement as the plot unfurls with a climatic suprise ending. A heartwarming story of tender love and sometimes bitter challenges, it is woven with a young woman's emotional battle to cope with the devastating trauma of being sexually assaulted, stabbed, and left for dead. When Justice is Served is a riveting story of bravery, hope, struggle, and redemption in a love story unlike any other.

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Impending Danger is a love story between Gabrielle Hampshire and Jonathan Briercliff that will leave you guessing at the dramatic outcome Beautiful Gabrielle is driven by the single-minded goal of discovering who she is after she witnesses a brutal murder, suffers from traumatic-shock amnesia and is abandoned to a convent. Later, secular life presents Gabrielle with dangerous challenges when she crosses paths with the killers who try to kill her, fearing she will identify them.

Dashing Jonathan Briercliff--who rescues the lovely Gabrielle from a near fatal attempt on her life and later wins her heart and hand in marriage--deceives her with a growing web of lies to keep her from learning the truth about his terrible secret, which could drive her away from him. When Gabrielle finds herself in a life and death battle of wits with Jonathan's vindictive old flame, wanton storms come crashing down around her in the most desperate fight of her life.

Impending Danger is a story of danger, romance, and passion in a suspenseful love story that will warm your heart and keep you guessing the outcome right to the end.