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Shonel Jackson

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Born

in Georgetown, Guyana

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Romance, Poetry

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Maya Angelou
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Danielle Steele
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I fell in love with romance novels as a teenager. Throughout my life, I have consumed them ravenously. I started writing my own a few years after reading my first. Nothing could stop me after that.

I love to write strong female leads, primarily women of colour. My ladies are vibrant, worldly and not afraid of a challenge. My guys are irresistible and smouldering and will stop at nothing to win their prize.

You'll laugh, maybe shed a little tear and drown in the worlds I like to weave. ...more

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She-Hulk, Volume 1: Single Green Female

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Snowed in with the Billionaire

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