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Jean Brashear

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A letter to Rod Stewart resulting in a Cinderella birthday for her daughter sowed the seeds of USAToday, Kindle and NOOK bestselling author Jean Brashear's writing career. A lifelong avid reader, at the age of forty-five with no experience and no training, she decided to see if she could write a book. It was a wild leap that turned her whole life upside down, but she would tell you that though she's never been more terrified, she's never felt more exhilarated or more alive. She's an ardent proponent of not putting off your dreams until that elusive 'someday'—take that leap now.

Over thirty published novels later, the three-time RITA finalist and RTBookReviews Career Achievement Award winner has accumulated a whole passel of war stories to s...more


The Voice is new to me, in the sense that I'd heard of it but never watched it before this season, and I'm struck by several things
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Average rating: 3.78 · 2,475 ratings · 324 reviews · 45 distinct works · Similar authors
The Goddess of Fried Okra
3.44 of 5 stars 3.44 avg rating — 474 ratings — published 2010
Texas Secrets (Texas Heroes...
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 206 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
Texas Lonely (Texas Heroes #2)
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 51 ratings4 editions
Texas Bad Boy (Texas Heroes...
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 42 ratings2 editions
Texas Refuge (Texas Heroes #4)
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2012
Black Flag, White Lies (Har...
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions
Texas Star (Texas Heroes #5)
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2012
So Tempting
3.29 of 5 stars 3.29 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
The Way Home (Harlequin Sup...
3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions
Extreme Caution (Harlequin ...
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions
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“Know inside yourself that you're strong. It's the only weapon that matters, and no one can teach that to you.”
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“I might not know every step of my journey, but standing still wouldn’t accomplish a thing. Sometimes you just had to take a step, whatever the direction, and see what happened.”
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