Sara Craven

Sara Craven was the pen name of Anne Ashurst (1938 to 2017), an English romance novelist who wrote more than 90 Mills & Boon novels between 1975 and 2018 and won BBC's Mastermind in 1997.

She was born Anne Bushell in October 1938 in Devon and died on 15 November 2017 in Rugby, aged 79. Before turning to fiction she worked as a journalist on the Paignton Observer and then as a teacher in the north of England.

Her first novel, Garden of Dreams, was published by Mills & Boon in 1975, beginning a relationship with the publisher that lasted more than 40 years. Her contemporary romances include Counterfeit Bride (1982), A High Price to Pay (1986), Comparative Strangers (1988) and Devil and the Deep Sea (1988). Her 93rd title, The Innocent's One-Night Confession, was scheduled for May 2018, after her death. In 1997 she was the overall winner of the last series of the original run of Mastermind, and she served as Chairman of the Romantic Novelists' Association from 2011 to 2013.

For collectors. A complete run begins with Garden of Dreams, her first Mills & Boon title of 1975, and ends with her 93rd book, scheduled for the Modern Romance series in May 2018.