Parker is a career student and obsessive reader who writes about competent (usually nerdy) women finding and fighting for their own steamy HEA. 

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Parker's books are inspired by her former jobs and life experiences (interviewing for the CIA... twice), working in four states and with a variety of companies and school districts as everything from a movie projectionist to a curriculum advisor.

She has four degrees (from MIT to USC), meaning you'll see a lot of stories set in or around academia, four children, seven chickens and sometimes publishes children's books under Marie Chow. 

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Some Random Facts: 

1. Parker initially wrote children's books because she'd dreamt of raising her children in a bilingual household. She eventually sold the reprinting rights to two of these (Because Dragons Love Milk and To the Moon!) to Scholastic, and, through a weird twist of fate, there's now a take-home activity and recipe kind of about her son. 

2. Though born and raised in the U.S., Parker spent a few years living in Taiwan and found herself needing to relearn English when she was younger. Thankfully, there was a lovely saleslady at the local Thrift Store who allowed Parker to buy books by the bag. On a near-weekly basis, Parker would fill a grocery bag worth or mostly Harlequin books for $3, learning about everything from cucumber sandwiches (many of these were set in England) to how people earn those happily-ever-afters.