When they first married she was an innocent young model and he was the sophisticated wealthy Greek Tycoon. Over ten years ago, I read a paperback romance novel that was published before 1999 in which the heroine's wealthy Greek ex-husband blackmails her into re-marrying him. (Or, or OR, someone at Harlequin HQ will stand up and yell, “I know this!”) (Then they'll apologize because Canada.) She visits a gym twice a week now and has made the surprising discovery that she gets some good ideas while doing the mind-numbingly boring exercises on the cycling and weight machines.This HaBO request comes from Mary, and this is one that will either get guessed right away, or one that could be any of, like, fourteen different books. She was a keen sailor until a knee injury ended her sailing days, but she still enjoys swimming in the sea. When Jacqueline is not busy writing she likes to spend her time traveling, reading and playing cards. Jacqueline Baird's been writing for Mills & Boon since 1988, and she still gets a thrill every time a new book is published. When her sons went to school all day she thought she would try writing one. Apart from a spell as a hopeful painter in oils, when she actually did have a painting accepted for the Federation of Northern Artists' annual exhibition her real passion was for romance novels.

But she always felt a little guilty because her diary was more fiction than fact. She has always been an avid reader, and she had her first success as a writer at the age of eleven, when she won the first prize in the Nature Diary of the Year competition at school. They still live in Northumbria and have two grown sons.

Eight years later, after working as a hotel receptionist in a five-star hotel in Scotland and traveling abroad for a few years, she came home and married him. She met her husband Jim, when she was only eighteen. On leaving school she joined the civil service in the then Post Office department. She went to the local village school, and later an all-girls' grammar school where she passed the University of Oxford General Certificate of Education in various subjects. Jacqueline Baird was born and raised in Northumbria, UK.

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