About

Jacqueline Diamond has sold more than 100 novels, including romantic comedy, medical romance, fantasy, mystery and Regency romance, to publishers from St. Martin’s Press and Harlequin to Five Star and William Morrow. A two-time finalist for the Rita Award, Jackie received a Career Achievement Award from Romantic Times and is a former reporter and TV columnist for the Associated Press in Los Angeles. Among her best-known publications is the Safe Harbor Medical romance series. In addition to working for traditional publishers, Jackie has reissued more than 60 of her backlist books and self-published more than half a dozen originals, including four Safe Harbor Medical mysteries and a romance about an older couple, Really? At Your Age?, part of the Better Late romance collection with a group of fellow authors. She lives in Orange County, California, with her husband of more than 40 years.

Featured Work

Really? At Your Age?

2020

Is it too late for her dreams to come true? After a quake rattles her town, Dr. Cody Matchett—age 52—is jolted into rethinking her long-simmering attraction to attorney Ben Wright, and the fate of half a dozen frozen embryos. En route to love and motherhood, Cody uncovers shocking secrets and the need to heal family fractures. Then she must choose a surrogate... who might be Ben’s grown daughter!

Other Works

  • The Case of the Long-Lost Lover

    2019

  • The Case of the Desperate Doctor

    2018

  • The Case of the Surly Surrogate

    2017

  • The Case of the Questionable Quadruplet

    2016

  • The Baby Bonanza

    2015

  • His Baby Dream

    2013

  • The Detective's Accidental Baby

    2012

  • Out of Her Universe

    2012

  • The Would-Be Mommy

    2010

  • Touch Me in the Dark

    2007

  • The Police Chief's Lady

    2005

  • Cindy and the Fella

    2002

  • More Than the Doctor Ordered

    2001

  • Designer Genes

    2000

  • His Secret Son

    1999

  • The Bride Wore Gym Shoes

    1999

  • The Cowboy and the Heiress

    1996

  • A Lady's Point of View

    1989

Awards and Recognition

  • Career Achievement Award, Romantic Times
  • Two-time finalist, Rita Award (Romance Writers of America)
  • Thomas Watson Foundation fellowship in playwriting