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Born in southern Missouri with a book in her hand, Myrna Mackenzie moved to Chicago before she was two. As a child, she loved to daydream, saving the world (and the cute boy in the next desk) from certain doom. As an adult, she considers herself privileged to be able to make her living as a professional daydreamer, breathing life into heroes and heroines on a daily basis.

Married to her high school sweetheart who introduced his bookish wife to the joys of white water rafting and hiking to the tops of mountains, she and her family have traveled a great deal, with trips usually a mix of camping along with hotels or bed and breakfasts for those who prefer their bedrooms with four walls and no visible wildlife. She and her husband have two wonderful sons who make them proud and are very creative themselves. A sucker for babies, puppies and kittens, at the moment she has none, but hopes to someday. (She'd also like a Ferrari, to have designers come to her house and beg her to wear their clothing and to have people address her as "your highness", but that's probably not going to happen in this lifetime).

Mackenzie writes romances because they're books in which the characters are constantly aware that their actions can and do affect other people in ways that are both negative and positive, simple and complex. They're books that are meant to entertain, but there's also always an inherent message woven into every story, and that message is, simply put, that love is the greatest gift anyone can give. It's a very basic message, but a very important one that Mackenzie feels is worth sharing and repeating.

An award winning author and nominee for Romantic Times Bookclub Career Achievement Award, 2007 will mark the release of her 30th novel.

Myrna Mackenzie