Karen Booth is a midwestern girl transplanted in the South, raised on '80s music and repeated readings of Forever by Judy Blume. Karen writes contemporary romance and women's fiction, almost always about the dreamy guy you never thought you'd get. Her stories are full of breathless kisses, tearjerker moments, the bizarre world of family dynamics, and more than a few things she pretends her parents haven't read. A married mom of two, Karen spends her spare time knitting, reading, or gardening, listening to everything from Otis Redding to Duran Duran, and convincing her husband to make her a cocktail.