Cheryl Holt is a New York Times, USA Today, and Amazon "Top 100" bestselling author who has published more than forty novels. She's also a lawyer and mom, and at age forty, with two babies at home, she started a new career as a commercial fiction writer. She'd hoped to be a suspense novelist, but couldn't sell any of her manuscripts, so she took a detour into romance, where she was stunned to discover that she has a knack for writing some of the world's greatest love stories. Her books have been released to wide acclaim, and she has won or been nominated for many national awards. She lives and writes in Hollywood, California.