Katharine Ashe is the award-winning, bestselling author of How to Be a Proper Lady, an Amazon Editors' Choice for the Ten Best Books of the Year in Romance, and nine other intensely lush historical romances. Upon her debut she was honored to be among the American Library Association's "New Stars of Historical Romance" and has won the coveted Reviewers' Choice for Best Historical Romantic Adventure. Her books have been recommended by Women's World, Booklist, Library Journal, Barnes & Noble, and many others. A professor of history, Ashe lives in the Southeast with her family.