Always a writer, first for newspapers, then for magazines, Theresa started writing her first novel in high school, eventually enrolling in a Writers Digest course and putting the book under the bed until after attending Linfield College to get a Bachelor’s Honors Degree in Mass Communications. She joined Romance Writers of America in 1993. Since then, she has written several books, but The Devil’s Maiden, which was recently selected as a finalist for the American Title II Contest, was the most research intensive to date. She currently lives in Victorian house on a few acres in the Pacific Northwest with her two young children, three cats, a mini Australian Shepherd puppy with blue eyes, a black and white Paint mare, and a dozen chickens, and is married to her high-school prom date.