Charmed Destinies: 3 Novels in 1 - Softcover

Mercedes Lackey was born in Chicago, Illinois, and attended Purdue University. She is also a professional lyricist and a licensed wild bird rehabilitator. She lives in Oklahoma with her husband and collaborator, artist Larry Dixon, and their flock of parrots.

Rachel Lee
Appropriately enough, Rachel Lee’s life reads like a novel. Name a part of America and the odds are she has resided there -- from the frozen North (Michigan) to the deep South (Florida), from the low-lying hills of the old West (Texas) to the heights of the Rockies (Colorado), and all three coasts of the contiguous United States.

She can also recite a string of occupations to go with her travels: selling houses on top of mountains, acting as a security specialist to the U.S. Department of Defense, programming computers, working as an optician and more. However, it seems she was merely gathering experiences for her true calling: writing. "I’ve been writing since I was eight -- it all started with a grade-three school play -- but it’s only since 1990 that I’ve been able to do it full-time. It’s a dream come true, every single minute of it."

Little did Rachel realize that a Sleepless in Seattle-style romance of her own was to result from selling her first book, AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN, to Silhouette Books in 1990. Determined to learn more about her new career, Rachel joined an online writers’ group. Imagine the budding romance writer’s surprise when she fell in love with another member of the group. "I discovered that it is still possible to nurture a romance with the written word. We met face-to-face after seven months of steady correspondence, and a week later we moved in together."

Rachel is the winner of four Romantic Times magazine Reviewers’ Choice Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award, and is a five-time finalist for the Romance Writers of America’s RITA® Award.

Catherine Asaro
Catherine Asaro was born in Oakland, California and grew up just north of Berkeley. A Nebula award winner (The Quantum Rose, 2001), has a doctorate in physics from Harvard University. She has published a number of papers on theoretical physics and established Molecudyne Research, which she currently runs. A former ballerina, she has performed with ballets and in musicals on both coasts, and founded the Mainly Jazz Dance program at Harvard. Her husband is John Kendall Cannizzo, an astrophysicist at NASA. They have one daughter and live in Columbia, Maryland. Catherine's fiction is a successful blend of hard science fiction, romance, and exciting space adventure. She has published nine novels, seven of which belong to her Saga of the Skolian Empire. Catherine was also recently elected vice president of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. (SFWA).