EXCLUSIVE: She's an Ivy League grad, wears LBDs, hosts Derby galas and drives a Rolls. But J.R. Ward is no Kentucky blue blood – she's author of steamy paranormal romance series Black Dagger Brotherhood and talking for the first time to DailyMailTV
J.R. Ward is the woman behind the bestselling paranormal romance series Black Dagger Brotherhood that has more than 15 million copies in print in 25 countries. She is the image of a society doyenne, throwing Derby parties for 750, collecting art-deco jewelry kept in a bank vault and owning a Rolls-Royce, Porsche and Audi. But the 50-year-old, real name is Jessica Rowley Pell Bird Blakemore, pens some of romance's most sizzling and lusty sex scenes about vampires. The notoriously private author sat for an exclusive interview with DailyMailTV, talking sex, vampires and violence, from her home in genteel Kentucky society. Ward said the Black Dagger Brotherhood books came to her in a 'series of interactive video clips that are in my mind's eye. I have no control over them'. Ward said: 'I put them in order and I describe what I see. My relationship with the characters is sort of a TV watcher. This is my Game of Thrones'. Ward credits her husband with bringing a balance to her life that has allowed her to explore her fantasy world, saying jokingly: 'It's like being married to Yoda'.