RITA Finalist and USA TODAY bestselling author JANICE KAY JOHNSON is a former librarian who is now the author of more than seventy books for children and adults. She’s published a children’s picture book, six young adult novels and two mainstream historical novels with Forge as well as her romance novels. A six time finalist for Romance Writers of America’s RITA award for best long contemporary romance, she won the RITA in 2009 for SNOWBOUND.

Janice is the mother of two daughters, one of whom currently serves in Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer while the other recently completed her first novel.