Jean Saunders (née Innes; 8 February 1932 – 3 August 2011)[1] was a British writer of romance novels from 1974 to 2010.
She wrote under her married and maiden names, and also under the pseudonyms of Rowena Summers, Sally Blake, and Rachel Moore.
Jean Saunders was the seventeenth chairman (1993–95) of the Romantic Novelists' Association,[2] and she was the Vice-Chairman of Swanwick writers' summer school.
In the 1980s she created two pseudonyms, Rowena Summers and Sally Blake, to write historical romances, her most popular works.
[3] She died on Wednesday 3 August 2011, after contracting an illness on a holiday earlier that year, after being rushed to Weston General Hospital.