Penelope Ward is a New York Times, USA Today and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of contemporary romance, with more than two million books sold and over thirty titles translated into a dozen-plus languages. She grew up in Boston with five older brothers and spent her twenties as a television news anchor before turning to fiction; her novel "Stepbrother Dearest" became the top-selling independently published Kindle ebook of 2014. She lives in Rhode Island with her family.