Laurel Collins

Laurel Collins always wanted to write books and travel in time. Writing historical fiction allows her to do both.  She is the author of a dozen traditionally-published historical romance titles - several with her "Catherine Wyatt" pen name - and altogether, over a quarter of a million copies sold.  A native Chicagoan, Laurel lives with her husband in one of the city’s western suburbs. When not writing, you’ll find her haunting genealogy websites to fill in the missing branches on her family tree, researching obscure historical facts, or visiting with her children and grandchildren. Now, age and experience have led her, as they have so many women, from romance to murder (fictional, of course).  She has just completed her first historical mystery, set in Gilded Age Chicago.