Gayle Wilson

Four-time RITA finalist Gayle Wilson has written twenty- five novels for Harlequin/Silhouette. A former high school English and world history teacher to gifted students, she writes historical fiction set in the English Regency period and contemporary romantic suspense. She has won numerous awards, including both the 1998 and the 1999 Kiss of Death Awards for Outstanding Romantic Suspense, the Texas Gold Award in 1999, the Laurel Wreath Award for Excellence in 1998 and 1999, and the 1999 Dorothy Parker Award for Category Romance, given by Reviewers International Organization. Gayle was a RITA finalist in the category of Best First Book in 1995 for her first historical, THE HEART'S DESIRE, and a RITA finalist in Romantic Suspense in 1999 for RANSOM MY HEART. In the 2000 RITA competition, she was a finalist in both the Short Historical category for LADY SARAH'S SON and in Romantic Suspense for THE BRIDE'S PROTECTOR.

Gayle still lives in Alabama, where she was born, with her husband of 32 years and an ever-growing menagerie of beloved pets. She has one son, who is also a teacher of gifted students.

Gayle loves to hear from readers. Write to her at PO Box 3277, Hueytown, AL 35023 or e-mail her at gaylewilson@mindspring.com.