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Authors: Ally Broadfield
Tags: #category, #historical romance
Acknowledgements
To my editor, Robin Haseltine, for believing in this story from the beginning and helping to make it so much better than I ever could have made it on my own.
To my family, who pretend not to notice how many days I’ve been wearing the same pair of yoga pants or my questionable bathing habits when I’m on deadline.
To everyone who has helped me along the path to publication by reading, critiquing, supporting, and encouraging me.
To Nancy Mayer, the Regency Researcher, for always answering my questions and for being a bottomless source of knowledge. Any historical inaccuracies are my fault because I didn’t ask her.
And if you are reading this, thank you. It’s an honor to have you read my books.
About the Author
Ally has worked as a horse trainer, director of marketing and development, freelance proofreader, and a children’s librarian, among other things. None of them were as awesome as writing romance novels (though the librarian gig came closest). She lives in Texas and is convinced her house is shrinking, possibly because she shares it with three kids, four dogs, a cat, a rabbit, and assorted reptiles. Oh, and her husband.
Ally likes to curse in Russian because very few people know what she’s saying, and spends most of what would be her spare time letting dogs in and out of the house and shuttling kids around. She has many stories in her head looking for an opportunity to escape onto paper. She writes historical romance set in Regency England and Imperial Russia.
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