Maureen Child was born in 1951. She sold her first book in 1990. She has since written more than 90 romance novels. Over the years, she's has written historical and paranormal romances under several pseudonyms including Ann Carberry, Sarah Hart and Kathleen Kane. She writes mainstream contemporary romances using her real name. One of her books, A Pocketful of Paradise, was made into a CBS-TV movie called The Soul Collector.