Raised on a diet of Georgette Heyer and Jane Austen in England, Janet Mullany has worked as an archologist, classical music radio announcer, performing arts administrator, bookseller, and as proofreader and editor for a small press. Her first book, Dedication (2005), the only Signet Regency with two bondage scenes, was followed by the award-winning The Rules of Gentility, published by HarperCollins in 2007 and by Little Black Dress (Headline, U.K.) the following year. She has gone on to write more Regency chicklit for Little Black Dress and paranormals starring Jane Austen for HarperCollins. She lives near Washington, D.C., where she drinks a lot of tea and gives etiquette lessons to a cat.