Marilyn Brant has been told she writes with honesty, liveliness and wit (descriptors she's grown terribly fond of) about complex, intelligent women -- like her friends -- and their significant personal relationships. Although her favorite pursuits undoubtedly involve books, she proves she's not just a literary snob by confessing her lifelong fascination (read: obsession) with popular music, especially from the '70s & '80s, most flavors of ice cream and a variety of sensuous body lotions/oils.

Marilyn is the award-winning women's fiction author of ACCORDING TO JANE (2009), FRIDAY MORNINGS AT NINE (2010) and A SUMMER IN EUROPE (available November 29, 2011), all from Kensington Books. She also writes fun and flirty romantic comedies that involve sweet treats and large doses of humor. Her ebook, ON ANY GIVEN SUNDAE, came out in June 2011 and hit the "Bestsellers in Humor" list. Her second digital book, DOUBLE DIPPING, is a September 2011 release. Look for more of Marilyn's ebook exclusives in 2012.

As a former teacher, library staff member, freelance magazine writer and national book reviewer, Marilyn has spent much of her life lost in literature. Her debut novel, ACCORDING TO JANE, featuring "the ghost of Jane Austen giving a young woman dating advice," won the Romance Writers of America's prestigious Golden Heart® Award and the Booksellers' Best Award, and it was selected as one of the "Top 100 Romance Novels of All Time" by Buzzle.com. Her second women's fiction story, FRIDAY MORNINGS AT NINE, was a Doubleday and Book-of-the-Month Club pick.

She currently lives in the Chicago suburbs with her family. When she isn't rereading Jane's books or watching old movies, she's working on her next novel, eating chocolate indiscriminately and hiding from the laundry.

Please visit her website at www.marilynbrant.com.

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• marilynbrant: RT @BlytheGifford: Start summer with great reading. Harlequin Historical Summer Giveaway is on! Today at http://t.co/CJle9TpL
• marilynbrant: Thanks, Debbie! ;) @LibraryOfOurOwn RT Want!! Book & trip!
• marilynbrant: Am wishing I could go to Europe with all of you right now... #daydreaming @poofbooks @AmyRBromberg @J_Leatherberry
• marilynbrant: Thanks so much for sharing about the #giveaway, Jen! http://t.co/sUFF2mcL @MmeJennifly
• marilynbrant: Our Internet server was down for most of Sunday, @Jill_Thomas1, which kept me offline (so no "research" detours -- just #writing ;). You?

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• Unmasked on Nov. 06, 2011
  
  I've always loved the allure and mystery of a masquerade ball, so the costumes and setting where Morgan first encounters Brianna and Marcos are especially intriguing to me, and it only gets better from there. This is a delightfully steamy story where the author has paid attention to those delicious details and word choices that make a reader identify closely with the emotions of the characters. Sterling has crafted a fun and very well written erotic novella, and I greatly look forward to reading more by her!