Sherry Lewis is a highly regarded author, known for her fun and engaging bestselling titles in American romance novels and literature. She has been writing for several years and has established herself as a veteran of the romance genre. Writing for big name publishers such as Harlequin, she has a proven ability to hold the attention of her audience with her compelling and entertaining stories.
In addition to writing under her own name, Lewis also uses the popular pseudonym Jacklyn Brady to write cozy mysteries. Along with her writing career, she has been teaching writing workshops for more than 20 years through Dancing on Coals Workshops for Fiction Writers. She is an award-winning, national bestselling author who has sold her works to various publishing companies, including Berkley Prime Crime and Harlequin Superromance.
Lewis has launched her mystery-writing career with the sale of her first three books in the Fred Vickery mystery series to Berkley Prime Crime in 1993. In early 1994, she sold her first romance to Harlequin Superromance, marking the beginning of her career as a romance writer. As Sammi Carter, she wrote the Candy Shop mystery series set in Paradise, Colorado and featuring Abby Shaw. As Jacklyn Brady, she wrote the Piece of Cake mystery series set in New Orleans, featuring cake artist Rita Lucero. Originally from Montana, she spent several years living at the base of Utah's Wasatch Mountains before moving to Florida's Emerald Coast, where she currently resides.
A Candy Shop Mystery Books (as Sammi Carter)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Candy Apple Dead
2005
2
Chocolate Dipped Death
2006
3
Peppermint Twisted
2007
4
Goody Goody Gunshots
2008
5
Sucker Punch
2009
Fred Vickery Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
No Place for Secrets
1995
2
No Place Like Home
1996
3
No Place for Death
1996
4
No Place for Tears
1997
5
No Place for Sin
1997
6
No Place for Memories
1999
A Piece of Cake Mystery Books (as Jacklyn Brady)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
A Sheetcake Named Desire
2011
2
Cake on a Hot Tin Roof
2012
3
Arsenic and Old Cake
2012
4
The Cakes of Wrath
2013
5
Rebel Without a Cake
2013
6
The Cakes of Monte Cristo
2016
Scarlett O'Malley Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Dead On Arrival
2017
Time Travel Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Whispers Through Time
2000
2
An Echo in Time
2001
You, Me & the Kids Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
The Christmas Wife
2003
2
High Mountain Home
2005
3
Christmas Homecoming
2011
Standalone Novels
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Call Me Mom
1995
2
This Montana Home
1996
3
Keeping Her Safe
1997
4
Let it Snow
1998
5
A Man for Mom
1999
6
For the Baby's Sake
1999
7
A Time to Dream
1999
8
That Woman in Wyoming
2001
9
In Hot Pursuit
2001
10
Mr. Congeniality
2002
11
Only Time Will Tell
2003
12
Together For Christmas
2005
13
Her Secret Family
2006
14
Picture Perfect
2011
15
New Year, New Love
2011
Non-Fiction Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Creating Characters With Character
2014
2
Mastering Story Conflict
2015
3
Mastering Character Motivation
2015
4
Avoiding Author Intrusion
2015
5
Mastering Scene and Sequel
2016
6
Organic Plotting
2016
7
Dodging the Dreaded Saggy Middle
2016
8
Mastering Character Emotion
2016
9
Mastering the Mystery Novel
2016
Dancing on Coals How-To Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Spinning Straw Into Gold
2013
Marriage Of Inconvenience Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Husband in a Hurry
1996
2
This Christmas
1996
3
Shotgun Baby
1997
4
Motive For Marriage
1997
5
Temporary Wife
1999
6
For The Baby's Sake
1999
7
Whose Baby?
2000
8
For the Girls' Sake
2000
9
The Baby Bargain
2000
10
The Marriage Contract
2000
11
Adopt-A-Dad / Substitute Father
2001
12
The Husband She Never Knew / Marriage for Keeps
2004
13
Baby Be Mine in Texas
2008
14
A Marriage Between Friends
2008
15
The Groom Came Back
2008
16
His Wife for One Night
2011
Count On a Cop Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Cop of the Year
1998
2
Her Protector
1998
3
Child of Mine
1998
4
The Family Next Door
1998
5
It Takes a Baby
1998
6
Are You My Mommy?
1999
7
Her Own Ranger
1999
8
A Ranger's Wife
1999
9
Falling For Him
1999
10
Jack Murray, Sheriff
2000
11
The Man Behind the Badge
2000
12
Annalee and the Lawman
2001
13
My Private Detective
2001
14
Accidentally Yours
2001
15
The Baby Cop
2001
16
Beneath a Texas Sky
2002
17
Wonders Never Cease Count
2002
18
She's My Mom
2002
19
Maggie's Guardian
2002
20
My Three Girls
2002
21
Vanished
2003
22
Two on the Run
2004
23
Revelations
2004
24
The Chosen Child
2005
25
In Her Defense
2005
26
A Man of Honor
2006
27
Her Secret Family
2006
28
Secrets in Texas
2006
29
The Perfect Daughter
2007
30
Safe in His Arms
2007
31
Nobody's Hero
2007
32
Not on Her Own
2007
33
Not Without Her Family
2008
34
Single-Dad Sheriff
2008
35
The Man Behind The Cop
2008
36
Cop on Loan
2008
37
His Only Defense
2008
38
Do You Take This Cop?
2010
39
Bachelor Cop
2010
40
Homecoming Day
2010
41
All That Remains
2011
42
Then There Were Three
2011
43
Honor Bound
2011
44
Bone Deep
2011
45
A Better Man
2012
46
Family First
2020
Women in Blue Books (with Roz Denny Fox, with Kay David, with Anna Adams, with Linda Style)