Gerri Russell is an award-winning author of historical and contemporary novels, including the Brotherhood of the Scottish Templars series and Flirting with Felicity. A two-time recipient of the RWA’s Golden Heart Award and winner of the American Title II competition sponsored by RT Book Reviews magazine, she’s best known for her adventurous, emotionally intense novels set in the thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Scottish Highlands. Before Gerri followed her passion for writing romance novels, she worked as a broadcast journalist, a newspaper reporter, a magazine columnist, a technical writer and editor, and an instructional designer. She lives in Bellevue, Washington, with her husband and children.