Linda Winstead Jones

Linda Winstead Jones is an American romance novelist who has published more than fifty books across paranormal, historical, fairy-tale, and romantic-suspense subgenres, writing under her own name as well as the pseudonyms Linda Jones, Linda Fallon, and Linda Devlin. She won the 2004 RITA Award for Best Paranormal Romance for Shades of Midnight and has been a three-time RITA finalist, alongside twice winning the Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence and a nomination for the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award. Her Columbyana books, including the Fyne sisters trilogy, form a connected fantasy-tinged historical romance world, while her Raintree novels explore a family with supernatural gifts across contemporary and paranormal settings. Earlier in her career she wrote the Sinclair Connection and Last Chance Heroes series. Jones's work is known for blending strong romantic tension with fantastical or suspenseful plots across a long and varied career.