Martha Waters was born and raised in sunny South Florida, where she spent her childhood reading lots of British children’s books and scribbling away in notebooks. She studied history and international studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she also earned a master’s degree in library science.

She is the author of Christmas Is All Around and the Regency Vows series, which includes To Have and to Hoax, To Love and to Loathe, To Marry and to Meddle, To Swoon and to Spar, and To Woo and to Wed; her books have received multiple starred reviews, and have been featured in Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, Woman’s World, Buzzfeed, PopSugar, The TODAY Show, and more.

She recently moved from snowy Maine to rainy England, and loves sundresses, gin cocktails, and traveling.