Romance & Women’s Fiction author Jen Gilroy/Rose Warner

Jen Gilroy writes sweet contemporary romance and, as Rose Warner, historical women’s fiction – uplifting books with heart and hope – about women finding home, family and new beginnings, and finding themselves too.

About Me

After a varied career in academia, business and government, I’m now a full-time writer. I live with my family in small-town Ontario, Canada, although as a dual British-Canadian citizen also call England home.

I’m the author of eight contemporary romances with my next book, A Rancher’s Return, a sweet western romance from Harlequin Heartwarming, out in October 2024.  

My women’s and historical fiction debut, The Sweetheart Locket, a dual timeline WW2 and contemporary novel, released from Orion Dash in March 2022 and is currently available in audio. 

I’ve been a finalist for the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s (RNA) Joan Hessayon Award and Romance Writers of America’s (RWA®) Golden Heart® award. Amazon named my third book, Back Home at Firefly Lake, a ‘Best Book of the Month: Romance’ in December 2017.

For UK-focused women’s fiction, I’m represented by Kiran Kataria at Keane Kataria Literary Agency.

In North America, I’m represented by Paige Wheeler at Creative Media Agency.

I’m a member of the RNA and Women’s Fiction Writers Association (WFWA).

Photo by Robin Spencer, Spencer Studio 

From the Blog…

A shoe dilemma & important book news

As some of you know, I’ll be in Toronto, Canada this week to help celebrate Harlequin Books 75th anniversary. Harlequin Heartwarming publishes my Montana Carters miniseries and the next book, A Rancher's Return, is out in October. As a current Harlequin author, I’ve...

Want to read an early copy of my next book?

Home is…Where their hearts never left As I return to blogging after my summer break, I want to let you know that A Rancher's Return, my next Jen Gilroy sweet, second-chance contemporary romance for Harlequin Heartwarming, will be on a review tour with JustRead...

Visiting my British ‘home’ & a summer blogging break

After five long years when pandemic restrictions and then my own bout with Covid precluded travel, I’m finally able to visit England again this summer. It's still and always will be, important to who I am as a person and writer and one of the places I call 'home.' And...

Latest News

Photo by Robin Spencer, Spencer Studio