Margaret Major Cleaves (born February 13, 1946) is an author of over 45

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s since 1980, writing under her real name and under the pseudonym Ann Major. She is a founding member of the

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and the co-author of the article "The Contemporary Light Romance" which has been collected in the book ''Writing and Selling the Romance Novel''.

Biography

Margaret Major was born February 13, 1946, in

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, United States. Major attended Del Mar College, the University of the Americas in

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, and the

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from which she received a B.A. in English and Spanish. She taught school for two years before going on to receive her M.A. in English and Spanish from Texas A & I University. She has studied music at the university level and speaks three languages: English, Spanish and French. Major married and began writing after her first child was born. She sold her first novel six years later. She is a founding board member of the

and the co-author of the article "The Contemporary Light Romance" which has been collected in the book Writing and Selling the Romance Novel. She lives with her husband in

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Bibliography

As Margaret Major Cleaves

Single novels

* ''Midnight Surrender'' (1980) * ''Wild Enough for Willa'' (1980)* * ''Wild Lady'' (1981)* * ''A Touch of Fire'' (1982)* * ''Dream Come True: Florida'' (1982)* * ''Meant to be'' (1982)* * ''Love Me Again'' (1983)* * ''Seize the Moment'' (1984)* * ''The Wrong Man'' (1984)* * ''Golden Man'' (1985)* **Reedited as Ann Major*

As Ann Major

Single novels

* ''Brand of Diamonds'' (1983) * ''Dazzle'' (1985) * ''Beyond Love'' (1985) * ''In Every Stranger's Face'' (1986) * ''What This Passion Means'' (1987) * ''The Fairy Tale Girl'' (1987) * ''A Knight in Tarnished Armor'' (1991) * ''Married to the Enemy'' (1992) * ''The Accidental Bridegroom'' (1994) * ''A Cowboy Christmas'' (1995) * ''The Accidental Bodyguard'' (1996) * ''Love Me True'' (1999) * ''Inseparable'' (1999) * ''Midnight Fantasy'' (2000) * ''Cowboy Fantasy'' (2001) * ''A Cowboy and a Gentleman'' (2002) * ''Marry a Man Who Will Dance'' (2002) * ''The Hot Ladies Murder Club'' (2003) * ''The Secret Lives Of Doctors' Wives'' (2006) * ''The Amalfi Bride'' (2007) * ''Sold Into Marriage'' (2007)

Wild Series

# ''Wild Honey'' (1993) # ''Wild Midnight'' (1993) # ''Wild Innocence'' (1994)

Children of Destiny Series

# ''Passion's Child'' (1988) # ''Destiny's Child'' (1988) # ''Night Child'' (1988) # ''Wilderness Child'' (1989) # ''Scandal's Child'' (1990) # ''The Goodbye Child'' (1991) # ''Nobody's Child'' (1997) # ''Secret Child'' (1998)

The Girls with the Golden Love Series

# ''The Girl with the Golden Spurs'' (2004) # ''The Girl with the Golden Gun'' (2005)

Lone Star Country Club Series Multi-Author

**''Shameless'' (2003)

Fortunes of Texas: Reunion Series Multi-Author

**''Cowboy at Midnight'' (2005)

Collections

* ''Silhouette Christmas Stories 1990'' (1990) * ''Silhouette Christmas Stories 1992'' (1992) * ''Dazzled!'' (1999 * ''Getting Hitched Vol. 8: Marriage Diamond Style; Married to the Enemy; The Perfect Husband; I Thee Wed'' (1999)) * ''Fortunes of Texas / Reunion / Cowboy at Midnight'' (2006)

Omnibus in collaboration

* ''Wild Lady / Circumstantial Evidence / Island on the Hill'' (1990) (with

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and Dixie Browning) * ''Silhouette Summer Sizzlers, 1992'' (1992) (with

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and Paula Detmer Riggs) * ''Silhouette Summer Sizzlers, 1995'' (1995) (with Mary Lynn Baxter and Laura Parker) * ''A Baby? Maybe'' (1996) (with

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and Diana Palmer) * ''Lessons in Love'' (1997) (with Terry Essig and

) * ''The Father Factor'' (1998) (with

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and Diana Palmer) * ''Montana Brides'' (1999) (with

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and Diana Palmer) * ''The Man She Married'' (1999) (with

and

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) * ''Forget Me Not'' (2001) (with

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) * ''Summer Heat'' (2001) (with

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and

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) (Game of Chance / Midnight Fantasy / Heart of the Warrior) * ''Made for Love'' (2002) (with Dixie Browning) * ''The Debutantes'' (2002) (with

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and

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) (Jenna's Wild Ride / reinventing Mary / frankie's First Dress) * ''Christmas Cowboys'' (2002) (with

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) * ''Winter Nights'' (2002) (with

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and Joan Hohl) * ''What the Heart Can't Hide'' (2003) (with

and

) (''All that glitters / Goodbye Child / Best Bride'') * ''The Perfect Mom'' (2003) (with Janice Kay Johnson) * ''The Ultimate Treasure'' (2003) (with

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and Merline Lovelace) * ''Matters of the Heart'' (2003) (with

and Pamela Morsi) * ''A Cowboy and a Gentleman / Beckett's Children'' (2003) (with Dixie Browning) * ''The Bride Tamer'' (2004) (with Kristi Gold) * ''Small Wonders'' (2004) (with

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, Raye Morgan and

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) * ''The Country Club / The Debutantes'' (2004) (with

and

) * ''Challenged by the Sheikh: Dynasties: The Danforths'' (2004) (with Kristi Gold) * ''Bride Tamer / Pretending with the Playboy'' (2004) (with Cathleen Galitz) * ''Shameless / Desperado Dad'' (2004) (with Linda Conrad) * ''The Bride Tamer / Standing Outside the Fire'' (2005) (with Sara Orwig) * ''Secret Admirer'' (2005) (with

and Karen Rose Smith) * ''Men Made in America Vol 2'' (2007) (with Judith Arnold, Elizabeth August,

and Rita Herron) * ''Men Made in America Vol 8'' (2007) (with Patricia Coughlin, Kelsey Roberts, Curtiss Ann Matlock and Paula Detmer Riggs)

References and sources

Ann Major's Official Website

in Harlequin Enterprises Ltd

External links

Ann Major's Webpage
in Fantastic Fiction's Website
Ann Major´s Spanish ebook: Deseo
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