Tracey Livesay

Tracey Livesay’s latest release, THE DUCHESS EFFECT, is the sequel to last summer’s American Royalty, which evokes the real-life romance between Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan Markle, if Meghan was Megan Thee Stallion and was on virtually every summer 2022 reading list. Entertainment Weekly called American Royalty one of the “crowning achievements of the summer,” The Washington Post hinted that it felt like a real-life royal romance, “but steamier,” and Oprah Daily praised the book as “sexy, resonant, and real.” Tracey is the 2021 Emma Award winner for Best Interracial Romance for Like Lovers Do, which was also was named one of the 100 Best Fiction Books of 2020 by Kirkus Reviews. A former criminal defense attorney, she lives in Virginia with her husband—who she met on the very first day of law school—and is counting down the days until they have an empty nest. (Don’t worry, their three kids are well aware.)