Erica Spindler is a New York Times Best Selling author, who specializes in Romantic

Romance (genre)

As a literary genre of high culture, romance or chivalric romance is a style of heroic prose and verse narrative that was popular in the aristocratic circles of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe. They were fantastic stories about marvel-filled adventures, often of a knight errant portrayed as...

-Thrillers.

Personal life

Spindler was raised in Rockford, Illinois

Rockford, Illinois

Rockford is a mid-sized city located on both banks of the Rock River in far northern Illinois. Often referred to as "The Forest City", Rockford is the county seat of Winnebago County, Illinois, USA. As reported in the 2010 U.S. census, the city was home to 152,871 people, the third most populated...

. She lives with her husband, an advertisement executive, and their two sons in New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The New Orleans metropolitan area has a population of 1,235,650 as of 2009, the 46th largest in the USA. The New Orleans – Metairie – Bogalusa combined statistical area has a population...

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Spindler had planned on becoming an artist, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts

Bachelor of Fine Arts

In the United States and Canada, the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, usually abbreviated BFA, is the standard undergraduate degree for students seeking a professional education in the visual or performing arts. In some countries such a degree is called a Bachelor of Creative Arts or BCA...

 from Delta State University

Delta State University

Delta State University, also known as DSU, is a regional public university located in Cleveland, Mississippi, United States, in the heart of the Mississippi Delta...

 and an Master of Fine Arts

Master of Fine Arts

A Master of Fine Arts is a graduate degree typically requiring 2–3 years of postgraduate study beyond the bachelor's degree , although the term of study will vary by country or by university. The MFA is usually awarded in visual arts, creative writing, filmmaking, dance, or theatre/performing arts...

 from the University of New Orleans

University of New Orleans

The University of New Orleans, often referred to locally as UNO, is a medium-sized public urban university located on the New Orleans Lakefront within New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. It is a member of the LSU System and the Urban 13 association. Currently UNO is without a proper chancellor...

in the visual arts.

In June 1982, while she was in bed with a cold, she picked up a romance novel for relief from daytime television. She was immediately hooked and soon decided to try to write one herself. She leaped from romance to suspense in 1996 with her novel Forbidden Fruit.

Novels

• Heaven Sent (1987)
• Chances Are (1989)
• Read Between the Lines (1989)
• Rhyme Or Reason (1990)
• Wishing Moon (1991)
• Longer Than (1991)
• Baby Mine (1992)
• Tempting Chance (1993)
• Baby, Come Back (1994)
• Slow Heat (1995)
• Red (1995)
• Forbidden Fruit (1996)
• Fortune (1997)
• Shocking Pink (1998)
• Cause for Alarm (1999)
• All Fall Down (2000)
• Bone Cold (2001)
• Dead Run (2002)
• In Silence (2003)
• Last Known Victim (2007)
• Blood Vines (2010)

Series

• Blossoms of the South
  • A Winter's Rose (1992)
  • Magnolia Dawn (1993)
  • Night Jasmine (1993)
• Stacy Killian
  • See Jane Die (2004)
  • Killer Takes All (2005)
• Kitt Lundgren
  • Copycat (2006)
  • Breakneck (2008)