Constance BennettConstance Bennett is the award-winning, bestselling author of twenty contemporary and historical romances. A native of Missouri, she spent four years in Los Angeles performing live theatre and studying film and television acting before returning hometo launch her writing career in 1985. Her Harlequin Superromances, Playing by the Rules and Thinking of You, were both nominated by Romantic Times as Best Superromance in their respective years of publication, and Playing by the Rules went on to win a Romantic Times achievement award as Best Romantic Mystery of 1990. Two years later, Bennett received the first of her two prestigious Rita Award nominations from Romance Writers of America. Her Berkley/Diamond historical, Blossom, was nominated for a Rita in 1992, and in 1995, her Harlequin Superromance Single . . . with Children was nominated as Best Contemporary Category Romance. It was also her first Waldenbooks bestseller. Read More Read Less