Laura Landon taught high school for ten years before leaving the classroom to open her own ice-cream shop. As much as she loved serving up sundaes and malts from behind the counter, she closed up shop after penning her first novel. Now, she spends nearly every waking minute writing, guiding her heroes and heroines to happily ever after. She is the author of more than a dozen historical romances, including Intimate Deception, The Most to Lose, and Intimate Surrender, all from Montlake Romance, and readers around the world enjoy her books. She lives with her family in the rural Midwest, where she devotes what free time she has to volunteering in her community.