USA TODAY Bestselling Author Anna St. Claire is a big believer that nothing is impossible if you believe in yourself. She sprinkles her stories with laughter, romance, mystery, and lots of possibilities, adhering to the belief that goodness, love, and chocolate will win the day.Anna is both an avid reader and author of American and British historical romance. She and her husband live in Charlotte, North Carolina with their two dogs and often, their two beautiful granddaughters, who live nearby. Daughter, sister, wife, mother, and Mimi-all life roles that Anna St. Claire relishes and feels blessed to still enjoy. And she loves her pets - dogs and cats alike, frequently sprinkling them in her stories as secondary characters.Anna relocated from New York to the Carolinas as a child. Her mother, a retired English, and History teacher, always encouraged Anna's interest in writing, after discovering short stories she would write in her spare time.As a child, she loved mysteries and checked out every Encyclopedia Brown story that came into the school library. Before too long, her fascination with history and reading led her to her first historical romance-Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind, now a treasured, but weathered book from being read multiple times. The day she discovered Kathleen Woodiwiss, ' books, Shanna and Ashes In The Wind, Anna became hooked.Today, her focus is primarily the Regency and Civil War eras, although Anna enjoys almost any period in American and British history.