Neither heart nor home were for sale! Julie did occasionally admit to herself that under different circumstances Greg Robert might have gotten to first base with her. But Julie Gordon wasn't born yesterday! As the last private homeowner on a Des Moines city block slated for demolition by the Robert's Development Corporation, Julie could hardly afford to believe that she was truly the most desirable woman Greg had ever met. Yet the man who would not take no for an answer could be damnably persuasive - and contrary to what others might think, Julie Gordon was not made of stone!
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.
