USA Today bestselling author C. J. Carmichael has written over fifty novels, with more than three million copies in print. Three of her novels have been nominated for the Romance Writers of America RITA Award, including A Bramble House Christmas. A film version of A Bramble House Christmas premiered as a Hallmark Mystery movie in 2017. Married, with two grown daughters and a grandson, C. J. and her husband and their Welshie Jazz divide their time between their home in Calgary, Alberta, and the family cottage on Flathead Lake, Montana.