Melody Thomas is a wordsmith, a creator of dreams, and a passionate believer in happy endings. A product of thirteen schools and twenty-two moves stretching across the United States and Europe, she is a self-proclaimed gypsy. Her fascination with historical romance began when, in her teens, she visited the Tower of London and learned that Henry the Eighth had beheaded ... Read moretwo of his wives. This was great fodder for her teenage imagination and the start of a love affair with history, intrigue, and irresistible heroes. Show Less