Laura Renken
http://www.melodythomasauthor.com

Books:
Wicked Lies, November 2002
Heart Of The Condor, July 2002
Night Shadow, August 2001
My Lord Pirate, January 2001


Laura Renken

Multipublished author, Laura Renken, is a romance industry Golden Heart finalist, a Maggie finalist, and a winner of the prestigious HOLT MEDALLION for her novels. She is a wordsmith, a creator of dreams, and a passionate believer in happy endings. A product of thirteen schools and twenty- two moves stretching across the United States and Europe, she is a self-proclaimed gypsy, whose passion for writing developed at an early age while living overseas where she. What better place to explore and fall in love with a thousand years of history than in Europe?

Laura graduated with a degree in criminal justice from the University of Oklahoma. She lives near Chicago with her husband, a retired Marine Corps fighter pilot, where she now writes full time.

Her first year with Berkley introduced her Golden Heart finalist book, My Lord Pirate in Jan 2001, Night Shadow in September 2001 and, in August 2002, this exciting pirate series concludes with, Heart of the Condor. Also, in November 2002, look for Wicked Lies, a story of double identities when a highwayman takes to the road for justice.