RITA Award-winner Anne McAllister was born in California and spent formative summer vacations on a small ranch in Colorado, where developed her concept of "the perfect hero," as well as a weakness for dark-haired, handsome lone-wolf type guys. She found one in the university library and they've now been sharing "happily ever afters" for over thirty years.
Emma Darcy is the pseudonym used by the Australian husband wife writing team of Wendy Brennan and Frank Brennan. They wrote in collaboration over 45 romance novels. In 1993, in the Emma Darcy Pseudonym's 10th anniversary, They created the "Emma Darcy Award Contest" to encourage authors to finish their manuscripts. After the death of Frank Brennan in 1995, Wendy now writes the books on her own. Darcy sold 60 million books from 1983 to 2001, and averages six new books per year. In 2002, Darcy's first crime novel Who Killed Angelique? won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Novel. In 2003, the next novel, Who Killed Bianca, was a finalist for the Ned Kelly Award for Best Novel.
Kay Thorpe was born in England. In addition to writing, her other careers included dental nursing and a short time period with the Royal Air Force. In 1960 she married and after the birth of her son, John, she began her career as a writer. Her first book was published in 1968, The Last of the Mallorys. She has written over 70 books since then, including Temporary Marriage, Intimate Deception and Bought by a Billionaire. She still lives in England with her husband, Tony.