Alison KentA native Texan, Alison Kent sold one of her over fifty published works live on the "Isn't It Romantic?" episode of CBS's 48 Hours. The resulting novel, Call Me, was a Romantic Times finalist for Best First Series Book. She was noinated for the national Quill Awards for her 2005 Kensington Brava release, The Beach Alibi. Striptease, part of her popular gIRL-gEAR series, was an RT Reviewer's Choice Award nominee; and her 2009 novel, No Limits, was a Cosmopolitan Red Hot Read. Alison is also the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Erotic Romance.If there's a better career out there than writing, Alison doesn't want to know about it, as she's quite happy putting pen to paper in the backyard of her Texas home. She lives with her petroleum geologist husband, three rescue dogs (one a Hurricane Katrina survivor), and a colony of not-quite-feral cats. She battles the heat each year to raise a bumper crop of tomatoes and jalapeño peppers. Read More Read Less