Tammera L CooperTammera Cooper grew up on the Rappahannock River in Virginia watching the riverside community change with the times but remaining the same in spirit. The waterside lifestyle is in her blood and influences her writing every day.

Her favorite Romace book was To Love a Rogue by Valerie Sherwood. After reading it many times in High School, she headed to University of West Florida to study marine archaeology, final destination, Port Royal Jamaica. After she found out she wasn't that great a swimmer, she changed her major to Art History. And so, she started her career in retail management.

In 2014, Tammera was a Retail Store manager, and the writing bug bit. The characters started speaking to her and would not leave her alone until she started to put them on paper. The Water Street Chronicles were born. She has always loved historical romance and she assumed that was what she was writing. Each of the book titles come from code flowers of the Underground Railroad. During a brainstorming exercise with a Harlequin Editor at the Babes on the Beach writers retreat, the contemporary story came to life. She hasn't looked back.

Tammera made some changes in her career and personal life to put the words on paper. She now lives in Washington, NC. Writing is her second job. Keeping her readers happy is her main task. She enjoys the research required to write the stories that are woven with the small town's history.

She is a member of the Pamlico Writers Group and Women's Fiction Writers Association. The support and education provided by these groups have kept Tammera on the right track to publication. Read More Read Less