Six-time RITA finalist and RITA award-winner Gayle Wilson never dreamed of becoming a romance novelist. She was too busy being a teacher of gifted children, a wife, and a mother. She was always, however, a compulsive romance reader who loved to escape the stresses of modern life by retreating into a good book. As an English and history teacher, it was probably inevitable that she try her hand at writing a historical romance in her "spare" time. That first book sold to Harlequin Historicals and became a RITA finalist for Best First Book in 1995. Gayle has since written 34 books and 3 novellas for Harlequin. She writes historical fiction set in the English Regency period and contemporary romantic suspense.

Gayle is a life-long resident of Alabama. She lives in Hueytown with her husband of 35 years, a very stubborn English Shepherd, and way too many cats. She has one son, who also teaches gifted children, a wonderful daughter-in-law, and a beloved granddaughter, Madeline Elizabeth, affectionately known as Maddie.