Vanessa Kelly is an award-winning author who was named by Booklist as one of the "new stars of historical romance." Her sensual, Regency-set historical romances have been nominated for awards in a number of contests, and her second book, Sex and The Single Earl, won the prestigious Maggie Medallion for Best Historical Romance. Her third book, My Favorite Countess, was nominated for an RT Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Regency Historical Romance. She spends most of the year in Ottawa, Ontario with her husband, but she's lucky enough to spend some of the winter near lovely Amelia Island, Florida. When she's not dreaming of plots for her next Regency historical novel, she's writing USA Today bestselling contemporary romance with her husband under the pen name V. K. Sykes.