Biography

Weaver was born and raised in Peterborough, Ontario

Peterborough, Ontario

Peterborough is a city on the Otonabee River in southern Ontario, Canada, 125 kilometres northeast of Toronto. The population of the City of Peterborough was 74,898 as of the 2006 census, while the census metropolitan area has a population of 121,428 as of a 2009 estimate. It presently ranks...

, Canada

Canada

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. She has a degree in English literature. After her youngest child entered school in 1989 she began writing in the hopes that she could build a career that would allow her to work from home. None of her first eight manuscripts sold, but in July 1993 her ninth, True Blue, was purchased by Silhouette

Harlequin Enterprises Ltd

Harlequin Enterprises Limited is a Toronto, Ontario-based company that is a publisher of series romance and women's fiction. Owned by the Torstar Corporation, the largest newspaper publisher in Canada, the company publishes approximately 120 new titles each month in 29 different languages in 107...

 Books.

Generally Weaver writes two to three novels per year, taking up to five months to finish each work. The novels are most often classified as romantic suspense, and the protagonists are put into life-or-death situations in order more clearly reveal their true characters and feelings. In many of her novels, the hero is either connected to law enforcement or the military. Weaver also enjoys including animals in her stories "because they're usually excellent judges of character."

Weaver was awarded a Romance Writers of America

Romance Writers of America

Romance Writers of America is a national non-profit genre writers association. It provides networking and support to individuals seriously pursuing a career in romance fiction and supports top authors such as Nora Roberts and Judith McNaught.-History:...

 RITA Award in 1998 for Best Romantic Suspense for her novel On the Way to a Wedding. She is also a recipient of the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award.

Novels

• The Wolf and the Woman's Touch (1996)
• A Wish and a Dream (1998)
• Engaging Sam (1999)
• Big-City Bachelor (2000)
• True Lies (2000)
• What the Baby Knew (2000)
• True Blue (2000)
• On the Way to a Wedding.... (2000)
• Fugitive Hearts (2001)
• Under the King's Command (2002)
• Aim for the Heart (2003)
• Seven Days to Forever (2003)
• Eye of the Beholder (2003)
• The Insider (2004)
• In Destiny's Shadow: Family Secrets: The Next Generation (2004)
• Romancing The Renegade (2005)
• The Angel and the Outlaw (2005)
• Loving the Lone Wolf (2005)
• Cinderella's Secret Agent (2006)
• Unmasked: Hotel Marchand (2007)
• From Russia, With Love (2007)

Omnibus

• Veils of Time (1999) (with Lynn Kurland
  Lynn Kurland
  Lynn Kurland is a best-selling American author of historical, time travel, and fantasy romance novels. The characters in most of her books all belong to one of three extended families and her love scenes are not as explicit as many other popular romances.-Biography:Lynn Kurland is an only child...
  
  , Angie Ray, Maggie Shayne
  Maggie Shayne
  Maggie Shayne is an American author of more than 50 romance and paranormal novels. She has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Romance Writers of America RITA Award...
  
  )
• Question of Intent / Aim for the Heart (2004) (with Merline Lovelace)
• Insider / Check Mate (2004) (with Beverly Barton
  Beverly Barton
  Beverly Marie Beaver , better known as Beverly Barton, was an American author, known for her romantic suspense novels. She has written over thirty contemporary romance novels and created the popular The Protectors series for Harlequin Enterprises owned Silhouette’s Intimate Moments lines...
  
  )
• Loving the Lone Wolf / Deadly Reunion (2005) (with Lauren Nichols)
• Cornered: Fooling Around / The Man in the Shadows / A Midsummer Night's Murder (2005) (with Julie Miller
  Julie Miller
  Julie Miller is a songwriter, singer, and recording artist currently living in Nashville, Tennessee. She married Buddy Miller in 1981...
  
  , Linda Turner)
• In Broad Daylight / Romancing the Renegade (2005) (with Marie Ferrarella
  Marie Ferrarella
  Marie Ferrarella, née Rydzynski is a popular and prolific American writer of over 150 romance novels as Marie Ferrarella, which have been translated into at least seven languages...
  
  )
• A Baby for Him? (2006) (with Ginna Gray)

External links

• Official website