Jennifer Ashley, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Stolen Mackenzie Bride, and winner of a Romance Writers of America RITA Award, writes as Allyson James and Jennifer Ashley. She's penned more than eighty novels and novellas in historical romance, paranormal romance, and urban fantasy. She now lives in the Southwest with her husband and cats, spends most of her time in the wonderful worlds of her stories, and also enjoys hiking, music, and building dollhouses and dollhouse miniatures.