Jo Anne Barnes

Jo Anne writes steamy romance books mostly, but she's done other interesting things. She's run marathons (ran the original course from Marathon to Athens in Greece), bred and showed Champion Standard Poodles, crewed for a hot air balloon, dabbled in watercolors, and read everything she could get her hands on. Her love for books led her to become a writer.

She received her MS degree from the University of Texas at Dallas and taught school on every level, including college. She quit a job she loved--Practice Teaching Specialist at the University of Texas at Dallas--to devote more time to her passion for writing. During her childhood, stories of old plantation houses and their owners fascinated Jo Anne and later inspired her to write Time's Daughter, a time-travel romantic suspense novel. She's also written a thriller--The Thirteenth Apostle, Beyond Recognition: Shadows of Mental Illness, Miss Emma's Regret, and several romance novels: The Other Christina, Conveniently Married, Winds of Fate, Loving Miss Radio, Cajun Hideaway, Balloon Safari, Miss Oops, Romancing A Clown, Take Only My Love, and Sidestepping the Truth. She co-authored a book for children, A Horse for the Heart, with Dana Crigger, DVM.

Jo Anne's time-travel book, Time's Daughter, is a recipient of the Literary Titan's Gold Book Award. The awards are "awarded to books that have astounded and amazed us with unique writing styles, vivid worlds, complex characters, and original ideas."