Melanie Rowe

Pamela Ketter was born on 25 April 1942 in Evanston, Illinois, USA, daughter of Helen (Jaeger), a designer, and John Ketter, a musician and investor. Married, Pam has two grown children, a son, Neill, and a daughter, Bethany. She makes her home in North Carolina. Before she began writing romances, she worked as a newspaper reporter and columnist, and she has also worked in public relations, as well as in the admissions department of a small college. In her spare time, she volunteers as a docent at the local art museum and studies yoga.

She is the award-winning author of books for adults and children. She has been published by Silhouette, Harlequin, Mills & Boon, and Berkley as well as by various international publishers, including Mondadori in Italy and Cora Verlag in Germany. Her books are sold in 90 countries and have been translated into 21 languages. Her short stories and articles have appeared in Highlights for Children, Child Life, The Writer, and other national publications. Many of her books have been listed on the B. Dalton and Waldenbooks bestseller lists, and they consistently win high ratings from reviewers. Her book The Mommy Wish won a 2005 Reviewer's Choice Award from Romantic Times magazine, and she has won the Georgia Romance Writers' Maggie as well as many first-place awards for her adult and juvenile novels in the annual National Federation of Press Women contest.