Ava Bradley has worked as a sandwich maker (she makes the best darn Dagwood you've ever tasted) a pet groomer (she's ingested more fur than the average cat) and one of those people who holds up the stop sign before a road crew, but none of those jobs compare to writing the stories swirling around in her head. She lives in Northern California with her family and a small brigade of adopted pets. Though she writes suspense and steamy contemporary romance, her favorite books to write-and read-are those of fabled yester-year. She has a special affinity with characters she can identify with; the tom...