Kay Hooper (aka Kay Robbins) was born in California, in an air force base hospital since her father was stationed there at the time. The family moved back to North Carolina shortly afterward, so she was raised and went to school there. The oldest of three children, Kay has a brother two years younger and a sister seven years younger. Her father and brother are builders who own a highly respected construction company, and her mother worked for many years in personnel management before becoming Kay's personal assistant, a position she held until her untimely death in March 2002. Kay's sister Linda works as her Business Manager, Events Coordinator, and is playing a major role in the creation and operation of The Kay Hooper Foundation. Kay graduated from East Rutherford High School and attended Isothermal Community College—where she quickly discovered that business classes did not in any way enthrall her. Switching to more involving courses such as history and literature, she also began to concentrate on writing, which had been a longtime interest. Very quickly hooked, she asked for a Christmas typewriter and began seriously working on her first novel. That book, a Regency romance titled Lady Thief, sold to Dell Publishing in 1980. She has since published more than 60 novels and four novellas. Kay is single and lives in a very small town in North Carolina, not far from her father and siblings. Deigning to live with her are a flock of cats—Bonnie, Ginger, Oscar, Tuffy, Felix, Renny, and Isabel—of various personalities who all like sleeping on manuscripts and whatever research happens to be spread across Kay's desk. And living amongst the many felines are two cheerfully tolerant dogs, a shelter rescue, Bandit, who looks rather like a small sheepdog, and a Sheltie named Lizzie.
Series
Books
Always a Thief
2003
Shadows
2001
The Haunting of Josie
1994
Elusive
Elusive Dawn / Return Engagement
2004
Amanda/Haunting Rachel
2005
Rafe, The Maverick
1986
The Fall of Lucas Kendrick
1987
Golden Flames
1988
Golden Threads
1989
On Her Doorstep
1986
Touching Evil
2001
Blood Dreams
2007
Once a Thief
2002
Holiday Spirit
1991
Larger Than Life
1986
Return Engagement
1982
Adelaide, The Enchantress
1987
Hidden Salem
2020
Christmas Love Stories
1991
It Takes A Thief
1989
House of Cards
1991
Mask of Passion
1982
Gifts of Love
2006
My Guardian Angel
1995
Pepper's Way
1986
The Lady and the Lion
1990
Haunted
2014
Summer of the Unicorn
1988
Rafferty's Wife
1987
Crime of Passion
1991
Haunting Rachel
1998
Blood Ties
2010
Out of the Shadows
2000
A Deadly Web
2015
Sleeping with Fear
2006
Stealing Shadows
2000
C.J.'s Fate
1984
Blood Sins
2008
Chill of Fear
2005
After Caroline
1996
The Serpent's Tongue
2025
Wait for Dark
2017
Aces High
1989
The Matchmaker
1991
Time After Time
1986
Sense of Evil
2003
The Real Thing
2004
Something Different
1984
The First Prophet
2012
Enchanted
2003
Whisper of Evil
2002
Fear CD Collection
Hunting Fear / Chill of Fear / Sleeping with Fear
2007
Eye of the Beholder
1985
The Touch Of Max
1993
All For Quinn
1993
Captain's Paradise
1988
Elusive Dawn
1983
Hiding in the Shadows
2000
Hold Back the Dark
2018
In Serena's Web
1987
The Haviland Touch
1991
Hearts of Gold
1994
Through the Looking Glass
1990
What Dreams May Come
1990
Hunting Fear
2004
Velvet Lightning
1988
Hostage
2013
Amanda
1995
Breathless Surrender
1982
If There Be Dragons
1984
Lady Thief
1981
Finding Laura
1997
Something Different/Pepper's Way
2007
Kissed By Magic / Belonging to Taylor
1992
Curse of Salem
2021
The Glass Shoe
1989
The Wizard of Seattle
1993
Shades Of Gray
1988
Outlaw Derek
1988
Hunting the Wolfe
1993
Star-Crossed Lovers
1990
Final Shadows
2018
Unmasking Kelsey
1988
Enemy Mine
1989
Rebel Waltz
1986
On Wings of Magic
1983
Raven on the Wing
1987
Zach's Law
1987
The Trouble With Jared
1993
Haven
2012
Fear the Dark
2015
