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Beverly Barton

"Beverly Barton wrote her first book when she was only nine-years old. As a daughter of the South and a sixth-generation Alabamian, she wrote a story that she has described as 'a little southern girl's poor imitation of Gone with the Wind.' From the time her grandfather gave her a copy of The Beauty and the Beast when she was a very young child, Barton's romantic imagination began to unfold.

Born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, Barton was raised there and in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She lost her mother at a young age and was raised by her grandmother, surrounded by a large extended family steeped in the traditions of the South. Also an early devotee of movies, Barton had begun by the age of seven to rewrite films she saw in the theater and on television to give the stories a happy ending. Throughout high school and into her college years Barton wrote everything from short stories to television scripts to poetry and novels.

Barton did not graduate from college; instead she dropped out to marry the man she has called 'the love of my life' and became a military wife. She and her husband have raised two children, a son and a daughter, and have lived in the same house for over twenty-five years. Barton cherishes her life as a wife and mother, noting that every age and stage of her children's development have been precious to her. During her years of full-time mothering she continued to read and go to movies faithfully. In her mid-thirties, when her children were teenagers, Barton decided it was time to write again, primarily as a hobby at first. But before she turned forty Barton realized that it was time to make writing her career.

Barton sold her first book in 1989, and it was released as Yankee Desire." (Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2003)  

Bibliography:
After Dark
Blackwood's Woman
A Child Of Her Own
Defending His Own
Downright Dangerous
Egan Cassidy's Kid
Emily And The Stranger
Every Move She Makes
Gabriel Hawk's Lady
Grace Under Fire
Guarding Jeannie
Having His Baby
Her Secret Weapon
His Secret Child
His Woman, His Child
In The Arms Of A Hero
Jack's Christmas Mission
Keeping Annie Safe
Keeping Baby Secret
Lone Wolf's Lady
A Man Like Morgan Kane
Murdock's Last Stand
Navajo's Woman
Nine Months
On Her Guard
Roarke's Wife
Sweet Caroline's Keeper
The Fifth Victim
The Last To Die
The Princess's Bodyguard
The Tender Trap
What She Doesn't Know
Whitelaw's Wedding

Author's Website:
http://www.beverlybarton.com/

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