About the author

Jacquelin Thomas

<p>Jacquelin Thomas is an award winning, bestselling author with more than 79 titles in print&nbsp;and twenty-one years&rsquo; experience as a published author. Her books have garnered several awards,&nbsp;including two EMMA awards, the Romance in Color Reviewers Award, Readers&rsquo; Choice Award&nbsp;and the Atlanta Choice Award in the Religious &amp; Spiritual category. Jacquelin was a 2005 honoree&nbsp;at the Houston Black Film Festival for the movie adaptation of her novel, Hidden Blessings. She&nbsp;was the first recipient to receive the Writers Achievement Award at the North Carolina Book&nbsp;Festival in Winston-Salem. She also received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Romantic&nbsp;Times Magazine. Jacquelin is published in the romance, women&rsquo;s fiction, inspirational and young&nbsp;adult genres. Her second book in the young adult series, Divine Confidential was nominated for a&nbsp;2008 NAACP Image Award for outstanding fiction.</p><p>Jacquelin holds degrees in Interior Design, Business Management and Psychology.&nbsp;She has an M.L.S. in Legal Studies, and an M.S. in Psychology.</p>