Joanna Bourne

Joanna Watkins Bourne is an American, best-selling author of historical romance novels set in Europe during the Napoleonic Wars. Her novels about a group of spies have won numerous awards and are described as "witty, beautifully descriptive, [and] cleverly plotted." [1] She graduated from Goucher College and Georgetown University. After working as a research analyst for the Congressional Research Service, she taught English in Africa and then joined the State Department as a Foreign Service Officer, living in England, France, Germany, Nigeria, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. She currently lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains. [1]