A Kiss for Mama

Jeanne Savery (1937–2014), born Jeanne Isabel Savery in Ames, Iowa, was an American author of Regency romance novels. She attended Reed College and completed a B.A. in psychology at Michigan State University. While living in Kent, England, with her husband, political scientist Thomas W. Casstevens, she read Georgette Heyer's Regency romances and began building a research library of period diaries, letters and memoirs of her own. Her first Regency novel appeared in 1990–91, and she went on to pub...

"One of my favorite memories is lying on the grass on a knoll on a late summer day and telling my sister stories I was making up," says Jo Ann Ferguson, who also writes as J.A. Ferguson, Joanna Hampton, Jo Ann Brown, and Rebecca North."There's something magical about being able to spend time with people you enjoy in your imagination. As a writer, I get to go with my characters to their time and place so I can share their adventures and falling in love for the first time…all over again." She h...