Darlene Nicholson was born and raised in Southern California, moved to Georgia in her mid-twenties, and now lives in the middle of Kansas with her husband of thirty-four years and their two fur babies.   

Her time is spent volunteering for her church, helping her mom-in-law, and doing her best to turn the characters, quests and adventures running rampant in her head into stories she can share with others.

For Darlene, nothing is better than getting lost in a story where the settings and characters come alive in your mind. Like Linus with his blanket, she never goes anywhere without a book.

When she was little, her mother instilled a love of stories in her by reading to her every night. After she started reading for herself, her mother took her to the library where she discovered The Grey King by Susan Cooper, the Wizard of Oz series by L. Frank Baum, and The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, to name a few. Years later she stumbled across a copy of The Flame and the Flowerby Kathleen Woodiwiss on a neighbor’s bookshelf, and her love of romance novels was born.

In the years following, her tastes expanded to include suspense, mystery, and paranormal. Her goal is to combine all of them along with a loving dose of romance into her in-progress paranormal romantic suspense novel.