Donna Hill
Donna Hill is an American author of romance, mystery, and women's fiction. She has written over seventy novels, twenty short stories, and edited multiple anthologies. Three of Hill's novels have been adapted for screen.
Personal life
Hill cites the works of Bernice McFadden, Jesmyn Ward, Walter Mosley, James Patterson, Jeffery Deaver, Margaret Johnson Hodge, and Patricia Cornwell's early work as some of her inspirations.Hill is an editor of novels, and two award-winning anthologies. She is also a writing instructor at The Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center in New York. Hill holds an MFA in creative writing from Goddard College and is an assistant professor of English at Medgar Evers College, Essex County College and the College of New Rochelle.
Career
Donna Hill began her career writing novels in 1987, writing True Confessions, and has since published more than seventy novels and received the RT Career Achievement Award for her books.In 2009 she launched the e-book venture InnerVision Publishing together with author Pittershawn Palmer, with the intention of focusing on multicultural books.
Selected works
Hill's first romance novel, Rooms of the Heart, was published by Odyssey Books in 1990.Her sixth novel, Intimate Betrayal, is about Reese, who has lived with repressed-memoria amnesia ever since she lost her parents violently. Her memory gets triggered when she meets Maxwell and learns that their fathers were colleagues working for military intelligence. It was published by Harlequin Kimani Arabesque in 1997. Intimate Betrayal was adapted for screen as a TV movie for the BET network, starring Monica Calhoun, Khalil Kain, and Erica Gimpel in 1999.
She is also published under the pen name Olivia Hill.
As Donna Hill
RomanceScandalous Series
- Scandalous
- A Scandalous Affair
- A Private Affair
- Pieces of Dreams
- Through the Fire
- Seduction and Lies
- Temptation and Lies
- Longing and Lies
- Saving All My Lovin'
- Love Becomes Her
- If I Were Your Woman
- After Dark
- Spend My Life With You
- Secret Attraction
- Sultry Nights
- Everything is You
- The Way You Love Me
- For the Love of You
- Surrender to Me
- When I'm With You
- Touch Me Now
- For You I Will
- My Love at Last
- Rooms of the Heart
- Indiscretions
- Temptation
- Deception
- Intimate Betrayal
- Charade
- Dark Rider
- Interlude
- Soul to Soul
- If I Could
- Say Yes
- Rockin' Around That Christmas Tree: A Holiday Novel
- Dare to Dream
- Moments Like This
- Chances Are
- Prize of a Lifetime
- Heart's Reward
- Private Lessons
- Legacy of Love
- Long Distance Lover
- Prize of a Lifetime
- Pieces of Dreams
- Through the Fire
- Dare to Dream
- Legacy of Love
- Double the Pleasure
- Dangerous Intentions
- Justin & Bailey: Director's Cut—The Untold Story
- Secrets of the A-List
- Confessions in B Flat
Tess McDonald Series
- Getting Hers
- Wicked Ways
- Guilty Pleasures
- A House Divided
- Rhythms
- An Ordinary Woman
- In My Bedroom
- Divas, Inc.
- Quiet Storm
- What Mother Never Told Me
- All Up In The Mix
Romance
- Spirit of the Season
- Love Letters
- Rosie's Curl And Weave
- Della's House of Style
- Welcome to Leo's
- Going to the Chapel
- Living Large
- Lets Get It On
- Dark Thirst
- Sister, Sister
- A Whole Lotta Love
- Big Girls Don't Cry
- Destiny's Daughters
- Creepin'
- One the Line
- Midnight Clear
- Midnight Clear, Too
- After Midnight
- Holiday Fantasy
- Heat Wave
- The One That I Want
- Della's House of Style
- Holiday Temptation
- Approaching Footsteps
As Olivia Hill
Mystery- Murder in the Aisles