Award-winning, USA Today best-selling author Leigh Riker grew up with her nose in a book. She later began her career by writing short stories, but with her first novel she found her true fictional "home," and to this day her passion for writing romance and women's fiction remains as strong as ever. When not writing, or thinking about writing, she loves to spend time with family, read, watch movies that make her laugh and/or cry, and travel. At home now in the Southwest, she is (of course) working on a new novel.