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About the Author

Ms. Carter (she/her) is a writer, registered nurse, and 12-year BC survivor. She is originally from Pennsylvania, has lived and worked in Suffolk, England, and now battles the beltway in Northern Virginia. She draws on extensive European and American travels to add fine details to the characters who are yearning for their stories to be told. 

TC's recent credentials include articles in professional journals and presentations at national conferences. Her romance short story, BATTLEFIELDS, was selected for the Virginia Writers Club Journal and a poem will be published soon. Lately, she has been obsessing about writing historical romance novels with a women’s rights theme. 

Ms. Carter has a BSN and a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies.  She is a veteran of the USAF Nurse Corps and currently works in pediatrics. TC is also a member of local and national writers' groups, and is grateful to her critique partners and editor! When she is not writing, TC soaks in writing seminars and researches historical romance plots. Ms. Carter recharges in the gorgeous Shenandoah Mountains on hikes with her husband and their energetic rescue dog.

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Promise of a Happily Ever After

My own promise to readers: I am sensitive to trigger warnings but know they cannot always be published ahead of book releases.  The focus is on the love story and not the politics of the time. This author will not shock you with graphic violence. Consent is sexy. You will not happen upon scenes involving rape, child abuse, or gory death. I can't stand "old-timey" humor at the expense of LGBTQ or minority communities, so that part of historical research will be left off. There will be no lightly dismissed miscarriage of a pregnancy or infertility. And, no animals will be harmed! Yes, people will behave badly. A hero must throw a well-deserved punch once in a while. A cornered heroine will give the villain a shove. Characters deep in thought will recall sad events that shaped their motivations. There is no way to know or avoid all the possible topics that could trigger a reader. But thankfully, in the romance genre, we will always travel together to the happily ever after.

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