I was raised in Houston, Texas where I gained a love for country music and Blue Bell ice cream, but at the age of seventeen I moved to Utah to attend BYU and fell in love with the mountains, the snow, and NO humidity, so I never left! I met my husband on my front porch in Provo, Utah, where our employer arranged for him to pick me up for a "new-hire" training meeting in Salt Lake City that I was too nervous to drive to alone.

Many years after that drive, a wedding, and four kiddos later, we still love living in beautiful Utah! When I'm not researching history and writing love stories, I'm going back to my roots singing country car karaoke, taste testing all the french fries in Utah county, or pretending to be an interior decorator.

You can find me kissing my toddlers’ boo-boos by day, tracking my teenagers’ phones by night, and planning epic parties all hours in-between. My energy to write is fueled by overflowing mugs of Dr Pepper, and an admiration for historical women who choose to misbehave.