I'm an Army Brat and books were always there no matter where we lived. I spent all my time either at the library or reading the books I'd checked out so I could go back and get more. When I was 13, I started reading Harlequin romances. I remember sitting on the couch reading one day when my Dad walked through. He stopped and asked me what I was reading. I told him. He was about to get upset about it when my Mom said, "Your mother reads those books." So much for getting upset. *snicker* In high school it was historical romances--John Jakes being the 1st. Of course, I kept them covered so Daddy couldn't see what I was reading.

My biggest influence when it came to reading historicals was a bachelor cousin who taught history. He liked to read them to see if he could find any historical mistakes. I started doing the same thing and I haven't slowed down since.

I am a single mom with 2 sons. I've passed my love of reading on to them. My older son was reading The Boxcar Children in Kindergarten and my younger son at 13 started really enjoying reading...better late than never, I say. My love of reading is one of the factors that led to me becoming a teacher. I teach severe/profound Special Education and go to a "regular ed" 5th grade classroom once a week to read to them. I give books to my sons, niece and nephew as gifts and just because, so I like to keep up with juvenile literature.

My tall, dark and handsome hero hasn't shown up yet.....hmmm must be caught in traffic. So for now, I'll raise my sons, feed my cats and read my books.

REVIEWS
A Most Unusual Princess by Kelli A. Wilkins
A Touch of Heaven by Lily Graison
Chinatown Buffet by Shannon Leigh
Collinsfort Village by Joe Ekaitis
Collision with Paradise by Nina Munteanu
Entangled by Kathleen Dante
Falcon's Love by Denise Lynn
Featured Attraction by Julie Cohen
Finders Keepers by Linnea Sinclair
Gabriel's Ghost by Linnea Sinclair
Getting Even by Kayla Perrin
Ghostly Possession by Teresa Wayne
Girls' Night Out by Assorted Authors
Gone with the Nerd by Vicki Lewis Thompson
Greenwood Manor by Shannon Leigh
Hardly Working by Betsy Burke
Henry Potty and the Pet Rock by Valerie Estelle Frankel
Immortal Desires by Shannon Leigh
Irish Intimacies and Ironies by Megan Hussey, Tysche Dwai, Lucy Goosey, Larissa Lyons, Isabelle Kane, Audrey Tremaine
It Happened One Summer by Lynette Rees
Ivona Knight, Vampyress by Shannon Leigh
Looking for Mr. Goodfrog by Laurie Graff
Management Training by A P Miller
Marrying Up by Jackie Rose
Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear
Mistaken Identity by Cissy Hassell
Moments in the Life by Timothy D Kelley
More than Prophecy by Shannon Leigh
Nana's Little Black Book by Shannon Leigh
Oklahoma Sweetheart by Carolyn Davidson
Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear
Past Imperfect by Nora Peterson
Protective Measures by Dana Marton
Rain of Ash by Annmarie Ortega
Scandalous by Jenna Petersen
Scenes from a Holiday by Laurie Graff, Caren Lissner, Melanie Murray
Seduced by a Satyr by Angeline Bright
Seducing the Prince by Patricia Grasso
She's Got Issues by Stephanie Lessing
Some Enchanted Autumn by Linda Andrews
Stairway to Heaven by Shannon Leigh
Tease by Suzanne Forster
Temptress by Lisa Jackson
That Night in Texas by Eve Gaddy
The Bungler's Paradox by R.M. Wilburn
The Familiar by HJ Courtright
The Funeral Planner by Lynn Isenberg
The Jinx by Jennifer Sturman
The Lincoln Room by Valerie J. Patterson
The Mercy of Thin Air by Ronlyn Domingue
The Night Journal by Elizabeth Crook
The Prodigal's Return by Anna DeStefano
The Sexy Stranger by Kelli A. Wilkins
The Sisters Mortland by Sally Beauman
The Time Tunnel of August Kaplan by Jane Shoup
The Zodiac Series: Capricorn by Cyndi Redding and Larrisa Lyons
True Lies of a Drama Queen by Lee Nichols
Unscrambled Eggs by Nadia Brown
Weekends by Lindy S. Hudis
What Men Want by Deborah Blumenthal