Natalie Stenzel

Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Natale Stenzel (a.k.a. Natalie Stenzel) endured your average childhood with two brothers to annoy and parents to baffle. She attended the University of Missouri-Columbia, earning bachelor's degrees in English literature and magazine journalism. At this logical point in time, she decided that being a reporter or technical writer did not appeal to her in the least. But she tried. She moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, did some business and technical-type writing, married her adorable engineering geek, then quit the tech writing job to churn out babies. At home full time and uncomfortable in June Cleaver mode, she tried her hand at book-length fiction. She spent several years shooting in the dark, writing her heart out only to face rejection after rejection. Then, after a move to lovely central Virginia, she sold her first book in July 2002 at a Romance Writers of America conference in Denver, Colorado (Forget Prince Charming, Harlequin Flipside, November 2003). In total, she published four romantic comedies with Harlequin Flipside under the pseudonym Natalie Stenzel. Her fifth book, PANDORA'S BOX (Dorchester Love Spell, February 2008) was the first in a series of funny paranormal romances featuring sexy shape-shifting pucas, unexpected Druids, temperamental faeries – and even a flabbergasted human or two. The second book, THE DRUID MADE ME DO IT, was released August 2008, and BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HEART PLACE should hit bookstore shelves on February 24, 2009.