Born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, Laura Hayden began her reading career at the age of four. By the time she was ten, she'd exhausted the children's section in the local library and switched to adult mysteries and science fiction. Laura always wrote as a youth, but became sidetracked in college where differential equations were more important than dangling participles. But one Capstone engineering degree, one wedding, two kids and three military assignments later, she ended up in Colorado Springs where she met people who shared her passion for writing. With their support, instruction and camaraderie, she set two goals for herself: to win the Romance Writers of America's GOLDEN HEART award and after that, to sell her first book. Only Laura did it backwards. Shortly after selling her first book, a romantic suspense called SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME, Laura won the GOLDEN HEART for her time travel/ Western/ mystery/ romance novel, A MARGIN IN TIME. Laura has now published eleven full-length novels, four short stories published in anthologies, a non-fiction book about Nora Roberts and her most recent release a novella in MAGICK RISING. The wife of a career military officer, Laura has moved with surprising frequency and practiced efficiency from Alabama to Texas to Virginia to Colorado to Kansas back to Virginia to North Dakota to Montana, Colorado and finally back to Alabama.