AlTonya Washington has been a published romance novelist for 17 years and is a two time winner of The Romantic Times Magazine Reviewers Choice Award. In addition to being an author, AlTonya also works as a college Reference Librarian. Her pen-names include T. Onyx, Temple Carver and Ally Fleming. Her long-running and popular Ramsey/Tesano romantic suspense series includes Lover's Origin: Black Island, A Lover's Return, Book of Scandal: The Tesano Elders and A Lover's Redemption will mark the final titles in the saga.