Kimberly Iverson

A native of Washington State, Kimberly Iverson is descended from a checkered family that includes everything from Midwestern horse thieves to Russian nobility.  One of her cousins won a Heisman trophy, another was mayor of a town in Minnesota, and her great-grandfather served as Captain of the Palace Guard for Tsar Nicholas II in St. Petersburg.  But Kimberly's favorite family story is that of her grandmother, a childhood companion of the doomed Princess Anastasia forced to flee Russia with little more than the clothes on her back.

Such tragic yet romantic stories inspired Kimberly at an early age to pen her own fiction.  LIBERTY, featuring a Celtic female gladiator in ancient Roman London, is Kimberly's first novel and was acquired on proposal by HQN Books.  Kimberly uses her extensive knowledge of ancient and medieval history and warfare to make her fiction come alive for her readers.  A sequel to LIBERTY is under development.

She is also working on a new fantasy-romance novel titled SNOW IN JULY, set in the first tumultuous months following the Norman conquest of England, in which a Norman knight must battle his Saxon bride's shapeshifter-empowered kinsman, who has conceived a plan to restore England to Saxon rule—with himself wearing the crown, of course.