Noted for her "complex,
subtly shaded characters, richly sensual love scenes,
and elegantly fluid prose" (Booklist), Gaelen
Foley is the bestselling author of ten historical
romances from Ballantine Books. Her passionate, sophisticated
love stories have been published in eleven languages
and have won numerous awards, including the National
Readers' Choice Award, the Booksellers' Best, the
Golden Leaf, the Award of Excellence, the Laurie,
the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award for Best
First Historical Romance, and the Holt Medallion.
A Pennsylvania native,
Gaelen holds a B.A. in English literature with a minor
in philosophy from the State University of New York,
College at Fredonia, a quaint lakeside village where
Mark Twain once owned a home. It was here, while studying
the Romantic poets, such as Wordsworth, Byron, and
Keats that she first fell in love with the Regency
period in which her novels are set.
