USA TODAY bestselling author, Maxine Sullivan, credits her mother for her lifelong love of romance novels, so it was a natural progression for her to want to write them. This led to over 20 years of submitting stories and never giving up her dream of being published. That dream came true in 2006 when Maxine sold her first book to Harlequin Desire. Since that fateful day, Maxine has had 14 books published by Harlequin Desire, Escape Publishing, and Pan MacMillan's Momentum line, selling over 1.8 million copies worldwide in as many as 20 languages. She is also published in short stories worldwide in national magazines like Woman's Day, New Idea, My Weekly, and has sold short stories to the True Confession magazines. Maxine can be contacted through her website at http://www.maxinesullivan.com