KATHLEEN E. WOODIWISS is one of the world's best loved writers-the author of eleven enormously successful masterworks of romantic fiction, including her most recent novels, The Elusive Flame and A Season Beyond a Kiss, the long-awaited sequels to her groundbreaking classic love story The Flame and the Flower. In addition, she was a contributor to two New York Times-bestselling collections, Three Weddings and a Kiss and Married at Midnight. There are more than thirty-six million copies of her books in print worldwide.