Anne Kristine Stuart was born on May 2, 1948 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,U.S.A., just after World War II to overeducated parents and grew up inPrinceton, New Jersey (back in the days when girls didn't go to Princeton).Her childhood was classically dysfunctional, but she managed to survive andeven thrive, helped by her love of story. She read voraciously and began towrite novels in fifth grade, usually involving technically impossible lovescenes (back then fifth graders were innocent).

In her early 20s Anne lived for rock and roll and gothic romances. Whenthere wasn't enough of either to keep her happy she moved to Vermont towrite her first romance, a gothic entitled Barrett's Hill. It sold toBallantine and was published in 1974, when she was just 25 years old. In theensuing years she's written for almost every publisher, including Dell,Doubleday, Berkley, St. Martin's, Pocket Books, Avon, Signet, Zebra,Fawcett, Silhouette, Harlequin, and MIRA. She is the winner of RomanceWriters of America's prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award. Anne says hasbeen writing since the dawn of time, and when she's not writing she'sfeeling guilty.

Anne lives on 20 acres in a town in northern Vermont with her magnificenthusband of more than 25 years, Richard Ohlrogge, two wonderful teenagechildren (a boy and a girl), four cats, a springer spaniel, a satellitedish, seven televisions, six VCRs, a DVD player, six CD players, a Husqvarnasewing machine and serger. And she loves them all. Not to mention thehousehold's five computers.