Monica Burns

Monica Burns is a bestselling author of spicy historical and paranormal romance. She penned her first romance at the age of nine when she selected the pseudonym she uses today.

Her historical book awards include the RT BookReviews Reviewers Choice Award and Gayle Wilson Heart of Excellence for her stand-alone work, Pleasure Me. She’s also the recipient of the Readers' Favorite International Book Awards GOLD MEDAL and a Bronze IPPY Medal, for her time-travel, Forever Mine, which was also chosen as a USA Today HEA Blog 2015 Must-Read. Her paranormal romance awards include the prestigious PRISM Best of the Best and First Place for Assassin’s Heart, in her popular Order of the Sicari urban fantasy series.

From the days when she hid her stories from her sisters to her first completed full-length manuscript, she always believed in her dream despite rejections and setbacks.

A workaholic, Monica is a survivor of sexual assault, Long QT syndrome, breast cancer, Bipolar Disorder, ADHD, and OCD who believes every hero and heroine deserves a HEA (Happily Ever After). She is a firm believer that we should never settle for anything other than a love that is true, deep, and steadfast, because we are worthy of a love that crosses the boundaries of time and space.