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aka Laurel McKee (Amanda Carmack) Amanda wrote her first romance at the age of sixteen--a vast historical epic starring all her friends as the characters, written secretly during algebra class (and her parents wondered why math was not her strongest subject...) She's never since used algebra, but her books have been nominated for many awards, including the RITA Award, the Romantic Times BOOKReviews Reviewers' Choice Award, the Booksellers Best, the National Readers Choice Award, and the Ho...

Hey there. Bronwyn Scott here! Actaully, this is just my alter-ego. In real life, I am simply Nikki Poppen. I just write under this name when I am doing my work for Harlequin Historicals. Aside from writing these stories, you can also find my other writing through Avalon Books where I continue to write my historicals, but with a "tamer" approach. Outside of writing, I love to travel and study history. I first was sucked into history when I would play games with my father on thos...

Carole Mortimer was born on 1960 in a village in England that she claims was so small that "if you blinked as you drove through it you could miss seeing it completely!" She was the youngest of three children, and she adds that her parents still live in the house where she first came into the world, and her two brothers live very close by. Carole's early ambition to become a nurse came to an abrupt end after only one year of training due to a weakness in her back, suffered in the aftermath of...