Jane's first historical romance, Secrets of a Midnight Moon, was heralded as 'sensitive and sensuous, violent and tender.'"I found the plot to my first novel in a little known history of Northern California Indians when I learned that Native Americans were being taken as slaves by the settlers, their families threatened with death and dismemberment if they tried to leave. Yes, one can weave a romance around such an appalling event!"Since then she has published nine full length novels and four anthologies, all dealing with the perils and passions of romantic historical fiction.She graduated from the University of Minnesota majoring in American and Russian History revealing that, "while all of my stories are set in the US, I had hoped one day to set one in Russia, though in my opinion, the best ones have already been written."Jane continues to write and also edits for Melange Books. She currently lives in St. Paul, Minnesota with her husband, Richard Noer.