A native of the Midwest, Valerie Thorne loves to haunt used bookstores and cozy, quiet cafes. She writes emotionally charged, passionate erotica that explores our deepest desires, taboo fantasies, and the secret yearnings we all keep hidden beneath everyday routine and the many roles we inhabit.

She first discovered her passion for the written word in high school, when her senior year English teacher suggested she read the novel Watership Down. Once inside those pages, it felt like opening a door into a magical world of imaginative story-telling and believable characters that took her breath away. From then on, she was hooked. As a college student, she wrote poetry and submitted a handful to journals, each piece feeling like fragments of her heart rendered as stained glass. After graduating, Valerie married her college sweetheart, a kind and thoughtful man-turned-CPA whose steady devotion has served as a source of inspiration for more than two decades.

While Valerie (Val to her friends, Vee to a select few) considers herself happily married, she has always believed that a vibrant and active imagination is one of life's greatest gifts. And what started as idle curiosity reading erotic fiction during cold winter nights, eventually blossomed into her personal passion.

When she's not writing, Val can usually be found tending flowers in her backyard garden (sunflowers are her favorite), planning her next story, or enjoying a cappuccino with her husband during one of their many used-book adventures.