Barbara is an award-winning author with more than 30 books to her credit, both historical and contemporary romances and women's fiction, including her most recent, Lady Luck's Map of Vegas (2005) and The Goddesses of Kitchen Avenue (2004). Under the name of Ruth Wind, she has written 20 romance novels. Her work has captured a plethora of awards, including four RITAs; the Colorado Center for the Book Award (twice); Favorite Book of the Year from Romance Writers of America, and the Library Journal's list of Best Genre Fiction of the year, among many others. She writes women's fiction for Ballantine, romances for Silhouette, and columns for her Web site and Novelist's Ink.