About Cate Parke

Cate is a writer of historical and contemporary romance...and is also a professional pediatric nurse who recently added a new position to her life's resume--retired. She now lives in the foothills of the beautiful Smoky Mountains of Northeast Tennessee with her husband and two demented Siamese cats. With her husband, a retired U.S. Navy officer, she lived and traveled widely, not only throughout the United States, but also Canada, Mexico, and lovely England. She spent several years living in her (almost) favorite American city, Charleston, SC, which provides the setting for her first three novels and strong elements for the fourth. She has always been interested in history...really interested. About as much as she loves books.

Before writing a contemporary romantic fiction, Cate stayed awake nights asking such questions as who are these characters? And could really ancient books still exist? Could a private collector within a single family conserve an ancient book for a millennium and a half...and under what conditions? What about the family that cared for the book? Who might those people have been? What book could possibly be so precious that a single family felt duty-bound to preserve it above all else? And finally, would the prospect of marriage to a royal prince really be a fantasy come true?

Alex Campbell is a contemporary romance novel, Cate's fourth book in The Dreams of Oakhurst series. She loves to hear from her readers and welcomes visits to her website, http://www.cateparkeauthor.com where you'll find her blog, called Tuesday's Child, where she can be contacted.