Eugenia Riley is a highly acclaimed and prolific author, best known for her historical, contemporary, and time-travel romances. She was born and raised in rural South Texas as a preacher’s child, where she developed a love for history and adventure stories at a young age. Riley spent much of her youth playing the piano, climbing trees, writing poetry, and reading classical adventure stories.
After graduating magna cum laude from Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas, Riley began her writing career. She has a passion for creating romantic stories that feature spirited heroines who find true love and healing with tormented heroes. Riley has written for several prominent publishers, including Avon, Bantam, Warner, Harlequin, and Dorchester. She has also launched her own e-book imprints, Eugenia Riley Classics and Eugenia Riley Originals.
Riley is especially renowned for her time-travel romance novels, many of which have been #1 Bestsellers in Time Travel and Victorian Romance at Amazon and Kindle. Some of her most popular time-travel romance novels include "A Tryst in Time," "Tempest in Time," "Timeswept Bride," "Phantom in Time," "Embers of Time," "Lovers and Other Lunatics," "Two Hearts in Time," and "Wanted Across Time." Reviewer Harriet Klausner calls Riley "the empress of time-travel romance," and she has received thousands of fan letters from locations all over the world.
In addition to her time-travel romances, Riley has written numerous historical and contemporary romances, many of which are available in Kindle. She is currently working on several sizzling new Contemporary Romances, the Maestro Series. "Play for Me," Book #1 in the series, is already available and has won the BestsellerPub First Chapter Contest. Riley's "Waltz in Time" won her the 1998 Holt Medallion for Best Book with a Southern Theme. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas, a former English teacher and editor of Touchstone Literary Quarterly. Riley lives in Texas with her husband, and they have two grown daughters and two grandchildren.