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Marsh Endicott made a big mistake He assumed that Torey would be pleased to sell him her half share of the house they'd jointly inherited. "If the girl makes a fuss," he'd said, "I'll just pay rent until the sale goes through." After all, no one in their right mind would trek from the West Coast to live in a run-down property in small-town Iowa. Torey, however, couldn't wait to take possession and make a new life for herself. And that new life certainly didn't include a ready-made housemate who was engaged to another woman!
Author
Leigh Michaels is the pseudonym used by LeAnn Lemberger (b. July 27 in Iowa, United States), a popular United States writer of over 85 romance novels. She has published with Harlequin, Sourcebooks, Montlake Romance, Writers Digest Books, and Arcadia Publishing. She teaches romance writing at Gotham Writers' Workshop (www.writingclasses.com) She is the author of On Writing Romance. When Leigh was fifteen she wrote her first romance novel and burned it. She burned five more complete manuscripts before submitting to a publisher. The first submission was accepted by Harlequin, the only publisher to look at it, and was published in 1984. Michaels was born in Iowa, United States. She received a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, after three years of study and maintained a 3.93 grade-point average. She received the Robert Bliss Award as top-ranking senior in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and won a national William Randolph Hearst Award for feature-writing as an undergraduate. She is married to Michael W. Lemberger, an artist-photographer.
