Cheryl Holt is a lawyer, novelist, and mom who lives on the Oregon coast. Her varied employment history includes public school teacher, mediator, cook, bartender, lobbyist, musician, and political activist. A graduate of the University of Wyoming College of Law, she worked as a law clerk for the Attorney General of Colorado and Wyoming. Later, she served as a deputy district attorney in metro-Denver. She is a national award-winning author, and her novel Total Surrender was the winner of the prestigious Reviewer's Choice award by Romantic Times magazine. More Than Seduction is her twelfth book.