A word about the author...

Andrea Downing likes to say that when she decided to do a Masters Degree, she made the mistake of turning left out of New York instead of right to the west, and ended up in the UK.

She eventually married there, raising a beautiful daughter and staying for longer than she cares to admit.

Teaching, editing a poetry magazine, writing travel articles, and a short stint in Nigeria filled those years until in 2008 she returned to NYC.

She now divides her time between the city and the shore and often trades the canyons of New York for the wide open spaces of Wyoming.

Loveland, her first book, was a finalist for Best American Historical at the 2013 RONE Awards. Lawless Love, a short story, part of The Wild Rose Press ‘Lawmen and Outlaws’ series, was a finalist for the 2014 RONE Best Historical Novella award.

Dances of the Heart is her first contemporary novel.