Ursula LeCoeur

Most mothers and daughters are content to go shopping together or share an occasional lunch out. Not us.

Ursula LeCoeur is the pen name of a mother-daughter writing team, Mary and Helen. We're excited to introduce our debut romance, The Willing Widow, in the Love in New Orleans Series. It is now available as an ebook on Amazon.com. The paperback will be available in mid-May.

We set our romances in 1880s New Orleans because our roots run deep there. Our family settled in the city many, many years ago and later spread out across the Gulf Coast. We know the faith, the food and the fantasy of America's most romantic city.

We were raised on the history, foods, stories and traditions of New Orleans. Helen's first book, a literary novel, In the Hope of Rising Again (Penguin Press 2004, Riverhead 2005), is also available on Amazon.com.