sentences:  In 1987 she sold her first book to Harlequin and embarked on a career as a full-time writer.Since then, she has written more than eighty-five novels for various Harlequin and Silhouette category romance lines.Her early Silhouette novels were written under the pseudonyms, Gina Ferris and Gina Ferris Wilkins, which she later dropped in favor of Wilkins.