JoAnn Ross

I wrote my first story -- a tragic romance about two star-crossed Mallard ducks -- as a second grade writing assignment. The paper earned a gold star. So I kept writing.

I've since written over a hundred novels and have been published in twenty-seven countries. Two of my titles have been excerpted in Cosmopolitan magazine and as a New York Times, U.S. Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller, I'm also a member of the Romance Writers of America's Honor Roll of best-selling authors.

I'm currently writing small town series for HQN set on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula. Honeymoon Harbor is inspired by a Victorian seaport peninsula town my husband and I fell in love with over thirty years ago and visit often. Readers who enjoyed my Shelter Bay series will feel right at home in Honeymoon Harbor.

The Inheritance, a women’s fiction novel set in contemporary Oregon wine county and WWII France—published in September 2021 in hardcover, trade paperback, and audio—was an Amazon editors’ best pick, and will be available as a mass market paperback March 28, 2023.

I live in the Pacific Northwest—where my high school sweetheart and late husband of fifty-seven years proposed to me at the seawall where my Shelter Bay books are set when I was eighteen—with our still active, very vocal senior Siamese cat, Paws. Having joined our family when she was twelve years old, Paws pretty much runs the house.