Andrea Parnell is an American romance novelist best known for Gothic, historical, Western, and contemporary romance fiction. She began publishing in the mid-1980s and has had more than one million copies of her books in print. Her debut novel, Dark Splendor (1986), launched a new line of “Sexy Gothic” romances and earned the Romantic Times Award for Best New Gothic Author. Over her career she has also written short fiction and magazine articles, taught creative writing through a community college, served as president of the Georgia Authors Network, and has been an active member of Novelists, Inc. (NINC). Many of her novels are set in her home state of Georgia. She has received both the Maggie Award and Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Awards for her work.

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Books by Andrea Parnell:

1986 – Dark Splendor – Gothic romance; debut novel
1987 – Whispers at Midnight – Gothic romance
1988 – Delilah’s Flame – Historical romance
1988 – Lovespell – Romance
1990 – Wild Glory – Historical/Western romance
1993 – Aurelia – Historical romance
1993 – My Only Desire – Historical romance
1993 – Small Town Secrets – Contemporary romance
1994 – Devil Moon – Historical romance
2011 – Dark Prelude – Gothic romance; return to the Dark Splendor universe
2015 – Aurelia: A Sea Swept Romance – Revised/reissued edition of Aurelia