Dear Reader:
Early in my career, I wrote two books under the pseudonym Laura Jordan. The name had no significance other than that I liked the sound of it! However, the books themselves were significant, each in its own way.
Prior to The Silken Web, I had written only romances for various series where word count was specified to fit a particular format. I had no such restrictions with The Silken Web, so it became my first “long” book.
A year or so after it was published, the editor Star Helmer, told me she had heard through the grapevine that I had written a western romance, set in Texas around the turn of the twentieth century. I had, but since I was focusing on contemporary romances, I had never submitted the manuscript.
Ms. Helmer asked to see it. I took it off the shelf, spent a month or so rewriting and revising, and sent it to her. She bought it. I’ve published only four books with a historical setting. Hidden Fires was the first of them.
The commonality of The Silken Web and Hidden Fires ends with their having being originally published under the Laura Jordan pen name and both are love stories. I hope you enjoy them!
—Sandra Brown