In West Virginia, she covered both natural and manmade disasters.

Her years as a broadcast journalist were spent in two radically different areas of the country: Nebraska and West Virginia. Victoria credits much of her writing success to her experiences as a reporter. In 2008 she was the keynote speaker for the Romance Writers of American annual conference in San Francisco. In 2009 she was given a Career Achievement Award from RT Bookclub and was named Historical Storyteller of the year in 2003. With books translated into more than a dozen different languages she has readers around the world and has twice been nominated for Romance's Writers of America prestigious RITA award. Sixteen of her books are bestsellers hitting the New York Times, USA Today and/or Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. The Perfect Wife-originally published in 1996 and reissued in March 2008-hit #1 on the New York Times list. Since the publication of her first book in 1995, she has written thirty-one full length novels and six novellas. She turned to writing full time and is still shocked it worked out. New York Times bestselling author Victoria Alexander was an award winning television reporter until she discovered fiction was much more fun than real life. (Nov.Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. Agent, Meg Ruley at Jane Rotrosen Agency. Still, the story's far-fetched twists are festive enough, and coupled with the characters' considerable charm, render this rollicking historical romance from bestseller Alexander ( When We Meet Again The comedy of errors that ensues as the inexplicably panicked marquess attempts to escape his commitment with honor pushes the conventional love-hate plot stretch into strain after all, Fiona's clearly the marquess's dream damsel. Meeting all qualifications-and needing a husband to gain her inheritance without being forced into an arranged marriage-Fiona Fairchild substitutes herself for Helmsley's Christmas trystee and proposes. He now claims to be ready to marry, once he finds the smart, spirited, strong-willed wife of his dreams. He never kisses and tells-not even about his notorious annual Christmas trysts with whatever woman who's caught his fancy during the holiday season. Charismatic bachelor Jonathon Effington, marquess of Helmsley, is a Victorian-age cad with a difference.

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