AlTonya Washington's first contemporary novel, โRemember Loveโ BET/Arabesque 2003, was nominated by Romantic Times as Best 1st Multicultural Romance. Her novel โFinding Love Againโ won the Romantic Times Reviewerโs Choice Award for Best Multicultural Romance 2004. Her fourth novel โLove Schemeโ was nominated as Favorite Steamy Novel for the prestigious EMMA Award of Romance Slam Jam. She presently resides in North Carolina.