USA Today best-selling author Leigh Riker began her career by writing short stories, but with her first novel she found her fictional "home." And to this day her passion for writing-and romance-remains as strong as ever.When not writing, or thinking about writing, she loves to read, watch movies that make her laugh and cry, dig in the garden, play the piano-with gusto if not finesse-and travel.At home now in the Southwest with her husband, she is (of course) working on a new novel.For more information, see: Leighriker.com.