Karen Rose Smith was born on December 21 in Pennsylvania, U.S.A.. Although she was an only child, she remembers the bonds of an extended family. She and her parents lived with her grandfather and aunt until she was five, when her parents built a house next door. Since her father came from a family of ten and her mother, a family of seven, there were always aunts, uncles, and cousins visiting on weekends. Family is a strong theme in her books and she suspects her childhood memories are the reason. As a teenager, music became as important to Karen Rose as reading. The Beatles were her favourite group. But she and her cousin took their first sojourn into writing by collaborating on a script for The Monkees television program. They sent that script to every concert venue where the group appeared that summer!

In college, Karen Rose began writing poetry and also met her husband-to-be. She graduated of Shippensburg University in PA with a BS in English and French secondary education, she earned graduate credits in both English and Counseling. She married her college sweetheart and both began married life as teachers, but when their son was born, Karen Rose decided to try her hand at a home decorating business. She returned to teaching for a while but when back surgery interrupted her lifestyle, it led her to writing romance fiction.

After six years of writing and thirteen completed manuscripts, Karen Rose sold two books in one week! Published since 1991, she has had over 50 novels under diferent pseudonyms. She has published with Silhouette Romance and Special Edition, as well as with Meteor/Kismet and Kensington's Precious Gems. She has won New Jersey's Golden Leaf Award in short contemporary romance as well as the Golden Quill award in traditional romance. Her romances have made both the USA TODAY list and the Waldenbooks Bestseller list for Series Romance. A past president of the Central PA Romance Writers, she has given workshops on conflict, character, love scenes and synopsis writing to neighboring chapters and at national conferences.

Karen Rose lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, now their son is a research scientist working in Oklahoma. Karen has read romance novels since she was a teenager because they end with happily-ever-after. She thinks everyone needs hope in an ideal and an escape from time to time. And that's why she can see herself writing romance novels for a long time to come.