Katharine Ashe is the award-winning and USA Today bestselling author of historical romances that reviewers call ¿intensely lush¿ and ¿sensationally intelligent,¿ including her acclaimed Devil¿s Duke Series, and My Lady, My Lord and How to Marry a Highlander, finalists for the prestigious RITA® Award of the Romance Writers of America. Her books are recommended by Publishers Weekly, Woman¿s World Magazine, Booklist, Library Journal, USA Today, Kirkus Reviews, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and many others, and translated into languages across the world.Katharine lives in the wonderfully warm Southeast United States with her beloved husband, son, dog, and a garden she likes to call romantic rather than unkempt. A professor of European History, she writes fiction because she thinks modern readers deserve grand adventures and breathtaking sensuality too. For more about Katharine¿s books, please visit www.KatharineAshe.com.