Kate Pearce is a new but emerging voice in US romantic fiction, cutting her teeth with the successful Ellora's Cave and now graduating to Cheek and Black Lace. Kate Pearce was born in England. She relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1990's and now writes erotic romance in a variety of sub-genres for Virgin and Ellora's Cave. In her spare moments, she enjoys riding western style in the state parks of northern California.