Pamela Hartshorne

Pamela Hartshorne (b. Accra, Ghana) is a British writer of over 55 romance novels in Mills & Boon as Jessica Hart, she also wrote as Pamela Hartshorne, Pamela Bell and Flora Harding. She is winner of the British RoNA Award and the Romance Writers of America RITA Award.

Biography Pamela Hartshorne was born in Accra, Ghana, and grew up around Africa. She obtained a degree in French from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, where her mother continues living. She has traveled by Tanganyika, South Africa, Papua New Guinea, Oman, Australian Outback, Kathmandu, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Cameroon, Algeria, United States, Egypt, Kenya, France, Belize, Turkey, Sri Lanka, Spain, Italy, Greece... many of these countries have featured as settings in her books in one way or another.

She published her first book in 1991, and in 2004, she completed a Ph.D. on York's later medieval and early modern streets.

Jessica generally lives in York, England dividing her time between Yorkshire and Wiltshire, where her partner, John, lives.