Brodie had always counted on Drew to look after her, provide for her and keep her safe. She hated to think that her dependence on Drew had kept him from finding happiness - especially now. Brodie was facing heartache, and she needed Drew more than ever. Still, she couldn't help but wonder about the love Drew had lost so many years ago. She never dreamed that Drew's decision to remain single might have had anything to do with her - until Drew proposed marriage to pull Brodie out of yet another scrape.
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.
