The Lady Most Willing

Connie was born on 16 December 1954 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA but spent several years in suburban Buffalo, New York. Her family returned to Edina, Minnesota where she attended high school. In 1976, Brockway received a B.A. from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, she earned an M.A. in Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota. In the University she met her future husband, David Brockway, medical student, now a family physician, and they married on November 1976. The couple curr...

New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James writes historical romances for HarperCollins Publishers. Her novels have been published to great acclaim. A reviewer from USA Today wrote of Eloisa's very first book that she "found herself devouring the book like a dieter with a Hershey bar"; later People Magazine raved that "romance writing does not get much better than this." Her novels have repeatedly received starred reviews from Publishers' Weekly and Library Journal and regularly appear on th...

Julia Quinn is the pen name of Julie Pottinger, born Julie Cotler in 1970, an American writer of Regency-set historical romance. She was raised primarily in New England, took a degree in art history from Harvard, and had begun preparatory coursework for medical school when her first two novels, Splendid and Dancing at Midnight, appeared in 1995. She chose the name Quinn so that her books would shelve alongside those of Amanda Quick. Her best-known work is the Bridgerton series — eight novels pu...