Kat Martin is the author of more than fifty-five Historical and Contemporary Romance novels, currently the NYT bestselling author of the romantic suspense AGAINST series. Before she began writing in 1985, Kat had been a real estate broker. During that time, she met her husband, L. J. Martin, also an author with over 33 book length works. Kat is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara, where she majored in Anthropology and also studied History. "I love anything old," Kat says. "I love to travel and especially like to visit the places where my books are set. My husband and I often stay in out-of-the-way inns and houses built in times past. It's fun and it gives a wonderful sense of a by-gone era."