What a Woman Wants
Brenda Jackson is theNew York Times andUSA Todaybestselling author of numerous novels, including the Westmorelands series and, from St. Martin’s Press,Some Like It Hot,Taste of Passion andThe Playa's Handbook, among others. She was the first African-American author to have a book published under the Harlequin/Silhouette Desire line of books and the first African-American romance author to makeUSA Today's Bestseller's List and theNew York TimesBestseller's List for the series romance genre. Jackson has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Jacksonville University, and worked for thirty-seven years in management at a major insurance company. She now divides her time between family, writing and traveling. She has been married for thirty-seven years to her childhood sweetheart, Gerald, and they have two sons. She lives in the city where she was born, Jacksonville, Florida.