Mary Jo Putney has more than 29 novels to her credit, and she has been featured in a number of anthologies including the newly published, The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance.

Her work has appeared on the bestsellers' lists of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly. 

A graduate of Syracuse University, Mary Jo has degrees in eighteenth-century literature and industrial design. She has won numerous awards for her writing, including two Romance Writers of America RITA awards, four consecutive Golden Leaf awards for Best Historical Romance, and the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for Historical Romance.

Since 1987, Ms. Putney has published twenty-nine books and counting. Her stories are noted for psychological depth and unusual subject matter such as alcoholism, death and dying, and domestic abuse. Five of her books have been named among the year’s top five romances by The Library Journal. The Spiral Path and Stolen Magic were chosen as one of Top Ten romances of their years by Booklist, published by the American Library Association.