PAM KELLY spent her teen years on Chicago's South Side reading romance magazines and novels while watching her parents live out their real-life love story.

Pam always followed her passion in her career choices. She spent over twenty successful years in advertising. Next, she opened her own business, organizing and decorating homes and commercial spaces to create sanctuaries for busy professionals. Pam learned a lot about people -- their personal needs, as well as their desires for peaceful, welcoming spaces.

Her front-row view of how people lived and loved led Pam to study the magic and nuance of relationships. She found, in her work as well as books, articles, and interviewing people specifically about their relationships, that there were some common denominators or universal themes that bring people together and drive them apart. She now uses them to influence the framework of her newest passion: writing romance novels.