Originally from Connecticut, but transplanted early on to Florida, Ruth Axtell Morren wrote her first story when she was 12, a spy thriller, and knew she wanted to be a writer. But it wasn't until she surrendered her writing to the Lord that she received her first publishing contract in 2003.

Along the way, she studied comparative literature at Smith College, spent her junior year in Paris, taught English in the Canary Islands and worked in international development in Miami, Florida, where she met her future husband. Since then, Ruth, her Dutch husband and their three children have divided their time between the Netherlands and the coast of Maine.

Her second book, Wild Rose, was selected a 2005 "Top Ten Christian Fiction" novel by the American Library Association's Booklist. She loves writing about both the regency and Victorian periods in England, as well as 19th century downeast Maine.


Books:
Winter Is Past 2003
Wild Rose 2004
Lilac Spring 2005
Dawn in my Heart 2006
The Healing Season 2007
The Rogue's Redemption, Feb.08
Hearts in the Highlands, Apr.08
The Making of a Gentleman, Aug.08
A Man Most Worthy, Oct.08