Laurie Kingery makes her home in central Ohio where she is a "Texan-in-exile." Formerly writing as Laurie Grant for Harlequin Historical books and other publishers, she is the author of sixteen previous books and the 1994 winner of the Readers' Choice Award in the short historical category. She has also been nominated for Best First Medieval and Career Achievement in Western Historical Romance by Romantic Times magazine. When not writing her historical books, she loves to travel, read, e-mail and write her blog.