A spring bouquet

Debbie Macomber (born October 22, 1948, in Yakima, Washington) is an American author of romance novels and contemporary women's fiction. She sold her first manuscript in 1984 after years of rejection and went on to publish more than 150 books, including the long-running Cedar Cove and Blossom Street series; Cedar Cove was adapted into a Hallmark Channel television series (2013–2015). She received the Romance Writers of America's Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010.

Janet Anne Haradon Dailey (born in Storm Lake, Iowa) was an American author of numerous romance novels as Janet Dailey (her married name). Her novels have been translated into nineteen languages and have sold over 300 million copies worldwide.

Mary Josephine Dunn was born 22 September 1947 in Lancashire, England, UK. At the age of eleven she went to an all-girls boarding school, Layton Hill Convent, Blackpool. At sixteen, she wrote her first romance, with a medieval setting, completed in installments in an exercise book. From 1966 to 1970, she obtained a degree in English history from Keele University in Staffordshire, where she met her future husband, Ken Beverley. After graduation, they married on June 24, 1971. She quickly attained...

Mary Rebecca Wadsworth was born on March 4, 1955 in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she lived and then, later, Chattanooga for the first few years of her life. After that, the family moved to Kansas, where she grew up, spending the summers in her grandparents' home in Alabama. She has two sisters, Mimi and Nancy, and two brothers, Thomas and Daniel. Her mother, Beverly, remarried with Verne, and she won a step-sister, Chrissy. Rebecca married very young with John Brandewyne, and they had a son, Shan...

American author who writes under the pseudonym G. A. McKevett