Jennie Lucas's parents owned a bookstore and she grew up surrounded by books, dreaming about faraway lands. At twenty-two she met her future husband and after their marriage, she graduated from university with a degree in English. She started writing books a year later. Jennie won the Romance Writers of America’s Golden Heart contest in 2005 and hasn’t looked back since. Visit Jennie’s website at: www.jennielucas.comMillie Adams considers herself amix of Anne Shirley (loquacious but charming and willing to break a slate overa boy’s head if need be) and Charlotte Doyle (a lady at heart but with thespirit to become a mutineer should the occasion arise). Millie lives in a smallhouse on the edge of the woods, which allows her to escape in the wayshe loves best—in the pages of a book. She loves intense alpha heroes and thewomen who dare to go toe-to-toe with them.