Ava Bradley has worked as a sandwich maker (she makes the best darn Dagwood you've ever tasted) a pet groomer (she's ingested more fur than the average cat) and one of those people who holds up the stop sign before a road crew, but none of those jobs compare to writing the stories swirling around in her head. She lives in Northern California with her family and a small brigade of adopted pets. Though she writes suspense and steamy contemporary romance, her favorite books to write-and read-are those of fabled yester-year. She has a special affinity with characters she can identify with; the tomboyish heroines such as Anne of Green Gables and Laura Ingalls Wilder of Little House on the… Prairie. You can visit Ava and learn more about her upcoming works at her website, http://www.avabradley.com.