Melody Thomas is a wordsmith, a creator of dreams, and a passionate believer in happy endings. A product of thirteen schools and twenty-two moves stretching across the United States and Europe, she is a self-proclaimed gypsy. Her fascination with historical romance began when, in her teens, she visited the Tower of London and learned that Henry the Eighth had beheaded two of his wives. This was great fodder for her teenage imagination and the start of a love affair with history, intrigue, and irresistible heroes.

?Melody Thomas is an author to watch! She will sweep you away!?
?Karen Hawkins

Dangerous passions collide in the Highlands in Claimed by a Scottish Lord, the second book of the exciting historical romance series author Melody Thomas began with Beauty and the Duke. The story of a desperate?and desperately handsome?noble Scotsman who takes his enemy's daughter prisoner, only to discover that she's everything he ever wanted, Claimed by a Scottish Lord brims with Melody Thomas's trademark wit, adventure, and searing sensuality. If you've missed Judith McNaught's historicals?or simply adore curling up with a classic Kathleen E. Woodiwiss or Stephanie Laurens romance?then you just might have found a new favorite in Melody Thomas.