Willow by Norah Hess

Always a daydreamer, and often scolded for it by the grandmother who raised her, New York Times bestselling author Norah Hess always wanted to be a writer. At eighteen, she was sent to Chicago to live with an aunt after her grandmother's death. It was there that she met her husband. After raising three children, Norah decided to write her first novel, and since then has published nearly thirty romance novels and novellas. After her husband passed away, she and her two cats moved to Palm Springs, where the desert and mountains inspire her to write her Western romances.