Malorie Verdant first started reading romance when she was twelve. Her mother handed her a copy of Nora Robert’s Midnight Bayou and with resignation said, "Here you’ll love it, just skip the sex scenes or at least tell me you did." Malorie’s mother knew she was young and hoped she didn’t understand the diverse innuendos, but she also saw early on that Malorie was a hopeless romantic and had a joy and thirst for romance novels that not even her protective motherly instincts could stop.