Geralyn Dawson is a USA Today

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 bestselling author of romance novels. She is a graduate of Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University

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, and has written fifteen novels and contributed two novellas to anthologies, one of which was on the New York Times Best Seller list

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. In 1996 her novel The Wedding Raffle was named as one of the "Best Romances of 1996" by the Detroit Free Press

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. She has also been awarded the Romantic Times Magazine's career achievement award. She lives in Texas

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Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

with her husband and three children.

Novels

• The Texan's Bride (1993)
• Capture The Night (1993)
• Tempting Morality (1995)
• The Bad Luck Wedding Dress (1996)
• The Wedding Raffle (1996)
• The Wedding Ransom (1998)
• The Bad Luck Wedding Cake (1998)
• The Kissing Stars (1999)
• Simmer All Night (1999)
• Sizzle All Day (2000)
• The Bad Luck Wedding Night (2001)
• The Pink Magnolia Club (2002)
• My Big Old Texas Heartache (2003)
• My Long Tall Texas Heartthrob (2004)
• Her Bodyguard (2005)
• Her Scoundrel (2005)
• Her Outlaw (2007)

Anthologies

• Under The Boardwalk, Castaway (1999)
• A Season In The Highlands, Cold Feet (2000)