Written by American author Robyn Carr (Grace Valley, Thunder Point), The Virgin River series takes us to the remote California town of… Virgin River. The story begins with Melinda “Mel” Monroe, who answers an ad to work as a midwife and nurse practitioner. When she arrived at Virgin River, she thought she had made a…
British author of romantic comedy, Jill Mansell used to work at the Burden Neurological Institute in Bristol for many years before she became a full-time writer in 1992. Since then, she became a well-known chick-lit author who wrote more than 30 books like “And Now You’re Back,” “It Started With A Secret,” “Maybe This Time,”…
Born Cleo Virginia Andrews (June 6, 1923 – December 19, 1986), V.C. Andrews was an American author mixing gothic horror with family saga who made her name with Flowers in the Attic, published in 1979, and which became an instant success. After that, she published a new novel each year until her death. She wrote…
Ilona Andrews is the pen name used by Ilona Gordon and her husband Andrew Gordon write urban fantasy and romantic fiction together. Ilona was born in Russia in 1976 and came to the United States as a teenager. She studied at Western Carolina University, where she majored in biochemistry. It was in college, in English…
Sophie Kinsella has been writing romantic comedies for over two decades. Born in London, Sophie Kinsella has graduated from Oxford University and worked as a financial journalist, before becoming a fiction writer. Her first book was published when she was 26, under her real name, Madeleine Wickham. She found critical and public success and went…
A Court of Thorns and Roses (abbreviated to ACOTAR) is a romance fantasy series written by Sarah J. Maas, inspired by multiple fairy tales including the Beauty and the Beast and the tale of Tam Lin, but also Greek myths like Hades and Persephone. The story follows Feyre, a huntress who thinks the skin of…
Jodi Taylor is an English writer of fantasy-historical and romance novels, known for The Chronicles of St Mary’s series, about a group of historians who investigate major historical events. Jodi Taylor worked for almost 20 years for North Yorkshire County Council, occupying different positions like Facilities Manager for the Library Service. She self-published her first…
Julie Pottinger, better known by her pen name Julia Quinn, is a best-selling American author of historical romance, and the woman behind the wildly popular Bridgerton books, now a Netflix original series produced by Shondaland Media. She sold her first book, Splendid, at the age of 24 and has been working with the same editor…
Susan Wiggs is a best-selling American author known for her historical and contemporary romance novels. She published her first book, the Western historical romance “Texas Wildflower“, in 1987. A few years later, she gave up her teaching career to be a full-time writer. Since then, she wrote two books per year–for a total of more…
Written by Jana Deleon (Shaye Archer), the Miss Fortune series takes us to Sinful, Louisiana, where small-time life mixes with murders and killer spies. It’s a cozy mystery with a CIA assassin named Fortune Redding who has got to disappear after a leak at the agency. A price is placed on her head by one…
Born Eleanor Marie Robertson in 1950, Nora Roberts is an American author of more than 200 romance novels. She also writes the romantic suspense series In Death under the pen name J.D. Robb. She has also published books under the pseudonyms Jill March and for publications in the U.K. as Sarah Hardesty. Before becoming a…
Maggie Stiefvater is an American writer of Young Adult fiction. Born Heidi Hummel in Harrisonburg, Virginia, Maggie Stiefvater wanted to be a fighter pilot and race-car driver as a child. However, it seems those plans didn’t stop her from spending a lot of time reading and writing, as she was already submitting manuscripts to publishers…
