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Beverly Barton

I'm a sixth generation Alabamian who writes mainstream romantic suspense for Kensington. I'm also a wife, mother and grandmother. People who know me well will tell you that my family is more important to me than anything in the world. I'm fortunate to have a cousin who is like a sister to me and am blessed with a handful of close friends, whom I refer to as my bosom buddies. I wouldn't know what to do without these great gals who give me encouragement, support, advice, love and lots of laughs.

I was born in Alabama, where my parents lived on my paternal grandmother's ancestral home place, a farm that is still owned by a member of the family. My upbringing was divided between Tuscumbia & Barton, Alabama and Chattanooga, Tennessee. I graduated high school from Chattanooga Central and then attended college at the University of North Alabama. I married young and traveled briefly with my husband, who served in the navy in the mid-to-late sixties. After my husband decided against a military career, we settled back in our home state of Alabama and started a family. I was "in my element" as a stay-at-home mother and I can truthfully say that I've loved every moment of motherhood. I enjoyed my children as babies, as toddlers, grade-schoolers, teenagers and now as adults.

Our children are both adults with successful lives and good marriages. I always wanted four children and when my two kids married fabulous people, I finally got that second daughter and son. We have two handsome, brilliant grandsons, who have brought tremendous joy into our growing-older world, as has our beautiful and brilliant granddaughter, a toddler who is helping us, once again, see the world through a child’s eyes.

I sold my fist book in 1989 and it was released as a July 1990 Silhouette Desire. YANKEE LOVER was set in my hometown of Tuscumbia, Alabama, during the annual Helen Keller Festival. Since that first sale, I've written over seventy books for Silhouette and Kensington. My first mainstream romantic suspense, AFTER DARK, was released in December 2000 under the Zebra imprint for Kensington. In the past twenty years, I've gone from being one of the "new kids on the block" to one of the "old pros."

http://www.beverlybarton.com/

Books:

Don't Cry, September 2010
Dead By Midnight, February 2010
Worth Dying For, January 2010
Silent Killer, September 2009
Dying For You, December 2008
Raintree, October 2008
Cold Hearted, September 2008
Keeping Annie Safe, July 2008
Safe Haven
The Murder Game, February 2008
A Time To Die, December 2007
Raintree: Sanctuary, July 2007
Dying Game, April 2007
As Good As Dead, March 2007
His Only Obsession, March 2007
Miniseries: The Protectors
Most Likely to Die, February 2007
Sugar And Spice, November 2006
Dangerous Deception, November 2006
Close Enough to Kill, July 2006
Every Move She Makes, June 2006
Penny Sue Got Lucky, January 2006
Silhouette Intimate Moments 1399
More Than Words Can Say: Volume 2, October 2005
Ramirez's Woman, July 2005
The Protectors...The Beginning, April 2005
Protectors
Worth Dying For, November 2004
As Good As Dead, September 2004
The Last To Die, January 2004