Chase, Loretta

Loretta Chase has worked in academe, retail, and the visual arts, as well as on the street as a meter maid and in video, as a scriptwriter. She might have developed an excitingly checkered career had her spouse not nagged her into writing fiction. Her bestselling historical romances, set in the Regency and Romantic eras of the early nineteenth century, have won a number of awards, including the Romance Writers of America's RITA(r).