Margaret Major Cleaves (born February 13, 1946) is popular writer of over 45

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s since 1980 as 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

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, 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 fluent in three languages: English, Spanish and French. Major married and she 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

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) * ''Silhouette Summer Sizzlers, 1992'' (1992) (with

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and

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) * ''Silhouette Summer Sizzlers, 1995'' (1995) (with

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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

) * ''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

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

and

) (''All that glitters / Goodbye Child / Best Bride'') * ''The Perfect Mom'' (2003) (with

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) * ''The Ultimate Treasure'' (2003) (with

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and

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