Award-winning, USA Today best-selling author Leigh Riker grew up in Ohio with her nose in a book. She later began her career by writing short stories, but with her first novel she found her true fictional "home," and to this day her passion for writing romance remains as strong as ever. When not writing, or thinking about writing, she loves to read, watch movies that make her laugh and cry, dig in the garden, travel, and play the piano-with gusto if not finesse. At home now in the Southwest, she is (of course) working on a new novel.