Slow Heat

Stella Cameron, Lisa Jackson, Jill Marie Landis

Kensington Publishing Corporation, 2001 - Fiction - 415 pages

Summer-romance themed stories by three of today's most popular and bestselling authors are collected in this anthology that delivers contemporary love stories capturing the warmth and sweet sensuousness of the season that inspired them. Features stories by authors Stella Cameron, Jill Marie Landis, and Lisa Jackson.

About the author

Stella Cameron was born and raised on the southern coast of England where she met her American husband at a party in London. After their marriage, she left England and went with husband Jerry to Washington State to make a home and raise a family. Like many authors, Stella began her literary career as a reader. As a young girl, Stella was a self-professed reading "addict", devouring all types of literature. She learned very early to retreat from the demands of others into a gentler world -- her own. As a child and a young adult, books saved her because they helped free her while they entertained her. Her love of reading always went side-by-side with her love of writing. Nineteenth-century author Jane Austen was a particular favorite, and Stella admits that she particularly enjoys reading and writing books set in the 1800s, as well as contemporary novels. In 1980, Stella decided she wanted to write professionally. She attended writing classes and wrote short literary fiction for a year. It was during this period that Stella discovered how well-written and intense romantic fiction could be. Using her newly acquired writing skills, she began to write contemporary romantic fiction for Harlequin Americans and Intrigues. After several years, she moved up to Harlequin SuperRomances. In 1992, she made the switch to single titles with her first historical, Only By Your Touch. She has also authored a series entitled Rossmara Quartet along with several other romance titles. Stella Cameron sees herself as an entertainer and historian who adds her perspective to contemporary values through writing. Romance author Lisa Jackson grew up in Oregon. She graduated from Oregon State University and started working in the banking/investment industry. In the early 1980s, she stopped working in order to become a stay-at-home mom and started writing romance novels at the suggestion of her sister and fellow romance author Nancy Bush. She published her first novel, A Twist of Fate, in 1983. Her books regularly appear on the New York Times, USA Today and Publisher's Weekly bestseller lists. In April 2011 Lisa Jackson's title Devious hit the Publisher's Weekly bestseller list and in Aug 2012 her title You Don't Want to Know made The New York Times Best Seller List. In 2014 she continued this trend with her book, Close to Home.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Slow Heat; Zebra Romance Series
• Authors: Stella Cameron, Lisa Jackson, Jill Marie Landis
• Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation, 2001
• ISBN: 082177221X, 9780821772218
• Length: 415 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Anthologies (multiple authors); Fiction / General; Fiction / Romance / Contemporary; Fiction / Romance / General