Cheryl Bolen has enjoyed several successful careers. She's been a stay-at-home mother, a journalist, a public school English teacher, an antiques dealer, and in 1998 she debuted with her first novel, A DUKE DECEIVED.

With each endeavor came rewards. For the years she spent as a nurturing mother (including being a PTA officer, room mother, team mom, etc.), she looks with pride now on two extraordinary sons and counts motherhood as the noblest career of all.

And after the awards she garnered with her first novel (including being named Notable New author), Cheryl knows writing is the career that will sustain her in the coming years.

She says it's only natural that she write about love and commitment. She's been married to her real-life hero, now a college government professor, since she was twenty years old.

They especially enjoy weekends at their island get-away off the Texas coast and travel to England every chance they get.