Maureen Child is the American best-selling author of more than ninety contemporary romance novels and novellas. Maureen has written paranormal and historical romance under the pen names Ann Carberry, Kathleen Kane, Sara Hart, and Regan Hastings.
Maureen Child is a five-time nominee for the Rita award from Romance Writers of America. One of her novels, A Pocketful Of Paradise (1997), was made into a CBS-TV movie titled The Soul Collector, starring Melissa Gilbert, Bruce Greenwood, and Ossie Davis.
Maureen Child was born in California. According to her web, Maureen began writing as a way to keep her sanity and in hopes of finding a job that she could do and still stay home. Child published her first novels in 1990. Now she is USA Today's best-selling author.
As Ann Carberry, she wrote western historical and Victorian historical romances. As Kathleen Kane, she wrote Americana romances and western paranormal romances.
Under her own name, Maureen writes short contemporary novels for Silhouette Desire—books she loves to write because of their fast pace and condensed storytelling.
Maureen also writes paranormal romance novels under the pseudonym of Regan Hastings.
Maureen Child currently lives with her husband, two children, and a golden retriever in Utah.
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