Lynette Vinet is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, and a member of Romance Writers of America and Creative Minds Writers. Long intrigued by the history of the South, colonial America and the British Isles, she is also an avid genealogist, and a member of the Genealogical Research Society of New Orleans. Vinet has published eleven historical romances as well as a number of genealogical articles. She is a wife, mother, and doting grandmother.