Three Times a Bride

Adeline Catherine was born on 22 December 1948 in in Grants Pass, Oregon, USA. She always yearned to be a writer like her mother. The morning that one of her professors asked if she could use samples of Catherine’s creative writing on an overhead projector to teach was a dream come true. In 1988, she sold her first book to Harlequin Intrigue and went on to write three more before she tried her hand at a single-title historical romance. Nine books later, she did her first single-title contemporar...

Loretta Chase, born in 1949, is an American author of historical romance who earned an English degree from Clark University before turning to fiction; she has published under the name Loretta Chase since 1987. Her best-known novel, Lord of Scoundrels (1995), won a RITA Award and is widely regarded as one of the genre's classics. Her other novels include Mr. Impossible, Lord Perfect, and the Carsington and Dressmakers series.

Growing up in Joliet, Illinois, Samantha James had many childhood aspirations--being a writer was never one of them. When she was ten, she was certain she was destined to be an astronomer. That soon changed (happened a lot during those pre-teen years!) when she decided archaeology was in her future. Detective work was her next goal, thanks to the Trixie Belden mysteries she was reading, and before long, nursing beckoned (courtesy of the Cherry Ames series). In college, she set her sights on teac...