Elaine Levine lives in a small town on the Plains in Colorado with her husband, a blind German Shepherd, and a middle-aged parrot (who feels he raised her two children and lives for visits from her son as well as long-distance phone calls from her daughter in the Coast Guard).

Elaine's first published story, RACHEL AND THE HIRED GUN, won Romance Writers of America's® Golden Heart® Award for Best Long Historical in 2007.