Janet Louise Roberts was born January 20, 1925, in New Britain CT, and died June 11, 1982, in Dayton Ohio, where she was a reference librarian for the Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library between 1966 and 1978.

Not only did she write contemporary, historical,and gothic romances, but she even ventured into occult territory with The Devil’s Own, Isle of the Dolphins, Lord Satan, and Her Demon Lover – stories in which the devil or other demon fills in for the traditional romantic hero. She said that she began using pseudonyms to avoid embarrassing her father, a missionary in a rather conservative church.