Francis Ray was a New York Times and USA Today bestselling African-American writer of romance novels. Her literary fiction series – Taggart and Falcon, the Invincible Women, Grayson Family of New Mexico, and Grayson Friends – have consistently made bestseller's lists. She was born in Richland, Texas, and studied nursing, receiving a bachelor's degree from Texas Woman's University in 1967. She began writing in 1987, while continuing to work as a nurse, and had her first book published in 1992. AWARDS Romantic Times Career Achievement EMMA The Golden Pen The Atlantic Choice Romantic Times 2008 Reviewers' Choice Award Winners for AFRICAN-AMERICAN ROMANCE Reviewers' Choice Awards – Best Books Not Even If You Begged, St. Martin's Griffin (February 2008) Borders 2008 Bestselling Multicultural Romance Award for Nobody but You Written's 2010 Readers Choice Book of the Year for If You Were My Man
Series
Books
One Night With You
2009
Della's House of Style
2000
It Had to Be You
2010
Twice the Temptation
2011
All of My Love
2013
When Morning Comes
2012
Undeniable
1995
Dreaming of You
2006
The Wish
A Bonus Holiday Short Story
2011
All That I Desire
2013
Irresistible You
2007
A Dangerous Kiss
2012
Silken Betrayal
1997
The Bargain
1995
Big Girls Don't Cry
2005
Not Even If You Begged
2008
Only Hers
The Taggart Brothers
1996
Any Rich Man Will Do
2000
The Way You Love Me
A Grayson Friends Novel
2008
All I Ever Wanted
2013
Heart of the Falcon
1998
Incognito
1997
Someone to Love Me
2003
You Make It Feel Like Christmas
2021
In Another Man's Bed
2007
I Know Who Holds Tomorrow
2002
Like the First Time
2004
The Turning Point
2001
If You Were My Man
2010
And Mistress Makes Three
2009
Nobody But You
2009
A Seductive Kiss
2012
With Just One Kiss
2012
Until There Was You
1999
All That I Need
2013
Trouble Don't Last Always
2004
Forever Yours
The Taggart Brothers
1994
Break Every Rule
A Falcon Novel
1998
Falcon Saga
2004
You and No Other
2005
Somebody's Knocking at My Door
2013
Only You
2007
After the Dawn
2013
