Annmarie Ortega is a lifelong resident of Chicago. She is a member of the Romance Writers of America along with the Chicago North RWA chapter. She has a weakness for sizzling romance and heroes with great abs. Annmarie is published with Resplendence Publishing, New Concepts Publishing, Whiskey Creek Press Torrid, Total e Bound, and Red Rose Publishing. In her spare time she is the President of the PTA at a Chicago Public School. Visit her blog at www.annmarieauthor.blogspot.com.