Trisha Alexander, real name Patricia Kay is the USA Today bestselling author of 50 novels of romance and women's fiction. She sold her first novel to Silhouette/Harlequin in 1990. Since then, millions of copies of her novels, in both print and digital format, have been published in more than 20 different countries. An acclaimed teacher, over the past 15 years Pat has also shared her love of writing with more than a thousand writing students, many of which have gone on to be successful writers themselves. Born and raised along with three younger sisters in northeast Ohio, Pat has since lived in upstate New York, Northern Alabama, California, Sweden, and for most of the past 40 years, in Houston. She has three grown children and three brilliant and amazing grandchildren.