Charlotte Dillon was born in a small town in southern Louisiana, only a couple of hours from New Orleans. As a child, she feared bedtime, when the house would grow still and quiet; when all the lights would be turned out one by one, until her bedroom settled into inky darkness and shadows. There was one sure way not to notice the slow movement that she could swear was near her closet, or the soft breaths that she could almost hear under her bed--make up a tale, a wonderful story to carry her away. Each night, while Charlotte waited for sleep to come, she invented characters, designed worlds, and slipped away from the darkness and her childhood fear.

By the time she began school, reading was a favorite hobby--that and any kind of animal that needed a home. Charlotte devoured books about horses, far away places, long ago days and children brave enough to face any battle and win. She wrote short stories for fun and still made up her tales at bedtime, even when she outgrew her fears.

In high school, a friend handed her a romance novel to read one day. It seemed the perfect kind of book. In romance novels there were always happy endings, the good guys never finished last, and dreams did come true.

Thousands of romance books later, after marriage and babies, Charlotte wrote the first words of a romance story of her very own. Way back then she actually thought you just wrote a manuscript, sent it off to a publisher, and a few months later it was a book on the store shelves. At last count she had a folder full of nine year's worth of rejection letters to prove that greenhorn theory dead wrong! We are talking no need for life-support, don't even waste your time on CPR.

Charlotte still lives in that same little town in Louisiana, one house over from where she grew up. These days she shares her home with her hero husband, two wonderful children, too many spoiled dogs, and what ever wild pet she has taken in at the time -- from fallen baby blue jays to lost baby possums. Even now, she
makes up bedtime tales when she can't rest at night, but at least she has a perfect place to share her adventures -- in her books. She spends her days as a freelance writer, and evenings and weekends working on her tales of heroes, horses, and the kind of romance that dreams are made of.

Visit her at www.CharlotteDillon.com