occupation jacqueline baird
The romance novel or romantic novel discussed in this article is the mass - market literary genre . Novels of this type of genre fiction place their primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people , and must have an " emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending ." There are many subgenres of the romance novel including fantasy , historical romance , paranormal fiction , and science fiction . Walter Scott defined the literary fiction form of romance as " a fictitious narrative in prose or verse ; the interest of which turns upon marvellous and uncommon incidents ". Jacqueline Baird ( born 1 April in Northumberland , England ) is popular English writer of over 30 romance novels since 1988 . North East England is one of the nine regions of England that are classified at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes . It covers Northumberland , County Durham , Tyne and Wear , and the Tees Valley . The region is home to three large conurbations : Teesside , Wearside , and Tyneside , the latter of which is the largest of the three and the eighth most populous conurbation in the ___MASK30___ . There are only three cities in the region ; Newcastle upon Tyne is the largest city in the region with a population of just under 280 , 000 , followed by Sunderland , both of which are located in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear . The city of Durham is the county town of County Durham . Other large settlements in the region include Darlington ; Gateshead ; Hartlepool ; Middlesbrough ; South Shields ; Stockton - on - Tees ; Alnwick and Washington . Historical romance ( also historical novel ) is a broad category of fiction in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past . Walter Scott helped popularize this genre in the early 19th - century , with works such as " Rob Roy " and " Ivanhoe ". Literary fiction historical romances continue to be published , and a notable recent example is " Wolf Hall " ( 2009 ), a multi - award winning novel by English historical ___MASK55___ Hilary Mantel . It is also a genre of mass - market fiction , which is related to the broader romantic love genre Cumbria (; locally ) is a non - metropolitan county in North West England . The county and Cumbria County Council , its local government , came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972 . Cumbria ' s county town is Carlisle , in the north of the county , and the only other ___MASK17___ urban area is Barrow - in - Furness on the southwestern tip of the county . Scotland ( Scots : ) is a country that is part of the ___MASK30___ and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain . It shares a border with England to the south , and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean , with the North Sea to the east and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the south - west . In addition to the mainland , the country is made up of more than 790 islands , including the Northern Isles and the Hebrides . Northumberland is a county in North East England . The northernmost county of England , it borders Cumbria to the west , County Durham and Tyne and Wear to the south and Scotland to the north . To the east is the North Sea coastline with a long distance path . The county town is Alnwick although the county council is in Morpeth ( for the moment , as there are plans to move it to nearby Ashington ). The northernmost point of Northumberland and England is at Marshall Meadows Bay .