Author

Nicole E. Kelleher

Nicole E. Kelleher writes spicy romance for your inner romance warrior. Her favorite genres are epic romantasy and contemporary paranormal suspense where she can create brilliant heroines with resiliency, strength, and their own unique charm—women who more oft than not save the heroes!

A Michigander and lifelong wanderer, Nicole has called many places home—San Diego, San Francisco, Chicago, and even farther afield in France and Belgium. But after more than two decades as a Virginian, she’s settled in—though she still has the occasional urge to travel.

When she’s not writing, Nicole works at a local university planning events and engaging with alumni. Any spare time from writing and working is spent tending her garden, learning to cook something new—her current obsession is homemade pasta—and taking far too many pictures of #LucyTheVizsla.

She is the author of the Heart & Hand epic romantasy series, including Wild Lavender, The Queen’s Dance, The Naked Moon, and The Shadow Healer. She is currently writing The Blade Forgotten, the series finale, due to be released early next year. She is also the author of Thrice Bound, a romantic paranormal suspense, and a finalist in multiple fiction awards, including the PRISM Award, the Virginia Holt Medallion, and the National Excellence in Romance Fiction award.

She is also venturing into literary fiction, currently writing a political thriller set 20 to 30 years in the future—a very different kind of story from her romances, exploring what the world might look like a generation from now. Its release is slated for late 2027.

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