Rebecca Boado Rosas is thee daughter of Major Emil Edward Boado of the U.S. Air Force, who died during the war of Vietnam. Since her childhood years she enjoyed reading, and at five years, she began to write a repugnant poem to her sister.

Rebecca published her first romance novel in 1990, until her pseudonym Rebecca Paisley. She is the winner of two Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Awards. She won in 1995 the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award .She is a member of the Romance Writers of America Honor Roll, which honors authors who have made one of the major newspapers' bestseller lists. Though Paisley was telling friends in 2002 that she was writing again, she hasn't published since then.