Eileen Wilks

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born

Monahans, TX , The United States

gender

female

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http://www.eileenwilks.com/

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance

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Eileen Wilks’ first book, a Silhouette Desire published in 1996, hit the USA Today Bestseller List and was nominated for Romantic Times' Best First Short Contemporary award. Since then, her books have appeared consistently on national bestseller lists. With thirty two books in print and novellas in nine anthologies, she has been a finalist in the prestigious Rita Awards three times, as well as receiving several nominations from Romantic Times, including one for Career Achievement in Series Romantic Suspense.

Each book in her World of the Lupi series gains a larger audience. It was originally sold in the Romance section of bookstores, but more and more you will be able to find copies cross-shelved under Sci-Fi and Fantasy as the popularity of...more Eileen Wilks’ first book, a Silhouette Desire published in 1996, hit the USA Today Bestseller List and was nominated for Romantic Times' Best First Short Contemporary award. Since then, her books have appeared consistently on national bestseller lists. With thirty two books in print and novellas in nine anthologies, she has been a finalist in the prestigious Rita Awards three times, as well as receiving several nominations from Romantic Times, including one for Career Achievement in Series Romantic Suspense.

Each book in her World of the Lupi series gains a larger audience. It was originally sold in the Romance section of bookstores, but more and more you will be able to find copies cross-shelved under Sci-Fi and Fantasy as the popularity of the series grows!

Eileen has lived in the West Texas town of Midland, TX for over 30 years--three years as a young teen, and the remaining years since she moved back here as an adult. When she first started writing over 10 years ago, it hit her like the first drink for an alcoholic . . . or the first kiss for Romeo and Juliet.

She came to writing romance in a roundabout way. Having read and loved science fiction for years, that’s where she first tried her hand when the writing bug bit. Somehow her stories always ended up having a strong romantic subplot, but she hadn’t read a romance since the early 80’s and didn’t think “those little books” were her kind of stories. But when a friend in her critique group began working on a romance novel, Wilks decided she needed to give the genre another try. She asked her friend to recommend some titles--and quicker than you can say “Jayne Ann Krentz,” she fell in love. The genre had been busy growing up while she wasn’t watching. These days, with romances comprising over 50% of the mass market books published in the U.S., there are romances to appeal to almost every taste--historicals, paranormals and contemporaries that range from romantic suspense to romantic comedy, from inspirational to sizzling.

Eileen covered a lot of territory before coming home to Midland, having lived in Canada and Venezuela as well as twelve U.S. cities in five states.

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Average rating: 3.91 · 27,039 ratings · 1,767 reviews · 63 distinct works

	Tempting Danger (World of the Lupi, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 2,380 ratings — published 2004 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Mortal Danger (World of the Lupi, #2) 3.84 avg rating — 1,532 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Blood Lines (World of the Lupi, #3) 3.98 avg rating — 1,430 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Night Season (World of the Lupi, #4) 4.02 avg rating — 1,327 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Mortal Sins (World of the Lupi, #5) 4.15 avg rating — 1,184 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Blood Magic (World of the Lupi, #6) 4.19 avg rating — 1,093 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Blood Challenge (World of the Lupi, #7) 4.28 avg rating — 1,068 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Death Magic (World of the Lupi, #8) 4.25 avg rating — 654 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Cyncerly Yours (World of the Lupi #4.5) 3.91 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Midnight Cinderella (Way Out West) (Silhouette Intimate Moments, 921) 3.43 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Series by Eileen Wilks

World of the Lupi (13 books)
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3.92 avg rating — 25,740 ratings

El Mundo de los Lupi (1 book)
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At Midnight, #2 (1 book)
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3.33 avg rating — 12 ratings

At Midnight (1 book)
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“I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case...I love you. ”
― Eileen Wilks, On the Prowl

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“How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?”
― Eileen Wilks, On the Prowl

tags: love , words

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“Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.”
― Eileen Wilks, Tempting Danger

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