Revenge Was His Mission...
No person had ever caused such fire in Travis Rafferty's blood as Civil War nurse Meredith Carter had. Yet when the prisoner of war had attempted an escape, she'd betrayed him and his bedraggled men. Now, years later, vengeance led him on his journey west, with nightmares of battle on his heels. This time, Meredith wouldn't get away....
Love Was His Due...
She had to persuade Travis of her innocence. But how could she convince him of anything when she reacted so strongly to just standing next to him? Nursing his wounds -- staying with him -- was the only way to show him how she felt, that she could no more betray him than her own soul....
A Central Virginia native whose family's Richmond roots run as deep as the nation's, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Mary Burton graduated from Virginia's Hollins University and began a career in marketing. After a decade she left her job and began writing. Her first novel, a romance, was published in 2000.
Following that book, Burton wrote sixteen novels and novellas for Harlequin and Silhouette before entering the dark world of multiple murderers and their motives with Senseless, Merciless, Dying Scream, Dead Ringer and I'm Watching You, as well as her novella Christmas Past, which appears in the 2008 New York Times bestselling holiday anthology Silver Bells.
Her commitment to realism has led to eye-opening interviews with law enforcement, to forensic seminars and to the firing range. She is a graduate of the Henrico County Citizens Police Academy and the Richmond FBI Citizen's Academy, and has participated in Sisters in Crime's Forensic University program. Recently, she attended the Writers Police Academy in Jamestown, North Carolina. There she attended seminars on autopsies, undercover work and the motives behind murder.
Mary Burton is an avid baker and an accomplished cook. When not writing, researching or baking, Mary practices yoga, enjoys her miniature dachshunds Buddy and Bella, volunteers at the University of Richmond's Culinary Arts Program, attends professional conferences, and visits with readers and booksellers.
