About

Ann’s love for the genre started when she first stole historical romances from her mom’s pile to read for herself. In those days, “Historical Romance” often meant “bodice rippers” and “Regency”. While she read every historical she got her hands on, Ann hankered for romances from other eras, with heroines willing to push back against their circumstances.

Finally, she attempted to write the kind of romance she wanted to read. That manuscript, set in Stuart England, eventually became her first book, TO BE SEDUCED.

As the publishing world has far too little interest in seventeenth century England, Ann moved on to the Victorian era.

Now, she shamelessly uses writing to feed her addiction to reading any kind of history. (The story of cufflinks, anyone?) This enables her to pull readers into other times and places. Her goal as a writer is to take readers back to the sometimes elegant, sometimes dark, but always fascinating Victorian era, to spend time with sexy heroes and anything-but-helpless heroines.

Ann Stephens writes historical romance about feisty, capable heroines and the heroes who deserve them.

She still loves reading historical romance. Especially Regencies.