Patricia Grasso’s first brush with the romance genre happened in her high school junior year, when she read Gone With the Wind and was dissatisfied that Rhett and Scarlet didn’t have a happily-ever-after. After going on to earn her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, and working such diverse jobs as a long-distance telephone operator and an eighth grade teacher, she decided she needed a creative outlet. After five years of writing for nothing but love, she sold her first novel. Since then, Patricia has sold eighteen novels and won several awards—National Readers’ Choice Award, New England Readers’ Choice Award, Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice and KISS Awards, B. Dalton and Bookrak Awards for best-selling author. Her novels have been translated into fifteen languages and sold in twenty countries.