Alyssa Everett

Alyssa Everett grew up in Florida, where she knew she wanted to be a writer from the moment her elementary school English teacher put her paper up on an overhead projector as an example of how to correctly punctuate with quotation marks. She spent her formative teen years working at a nearby theme park, doing just about every odd job a person can do, from collecting garbage to captaining an African boat cruise.

Alyssa married her college sweetheart and dropped out of the work force a few years later to stay home with their three children. Starved for adult interaction, she began inventing grown-ups on the page. Since she could make her heroes look any way she liked, she gave them topboots and expert tailors. The result was her first regency romance.

A fan of Halloween, the perfect shoes, and springer spaniels, Alyssa now lives with her family in Pennsylvania, where writing continues to be her favorite excuse for putting off housework and aerobic exercise.