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After Tamara Leigh earned a Master’s Degree in Speech and Language
Pathology, she and her husband decided to start a family, with plans for Tamara
to continue in her career once she became a mother.
 When the blessing of
children proved elusive, Tamara became convicted to find a way to
work out of her home in order to raise the children she and her husband longed to have.
She turned to writing, at which she had only ever dreamed of being successful, and
began attending church. Shortly thereafter, her agent called with news of Bantam
Books’ offer of a four-book contract. That same day, Tamara’s pregnancy was
confirmed. Within the next year, she gave up her speech pathology career,
committed her life to Christ, her first child was born, and her first historical
romance novel was released.
As Tamara continued to write for the secular market, publishing three
more novels with HarperCollins and Dorchester, she infused her growing Christian
beliefs into her writing. But it was not enough, and though her novels earned
awards and were national bestsellers, she knew her stories were lacking.
After struggling with the certainty that her writing was not honoring God as it
should, she made the decision to write books that not only reveal Christianity
to non-believers, but serve as an inspiration for those who have accepted Christ
as their Savior. Her inspirational romances are peopled with characters in varying stages of Christian faith, from mature believers to new believers to
non-believers on the threshold of awakening.
Tamara Leigh
enjoys time with her family, volunteer work, faux painting, and
reading. She lives near Nashville, Tennessee with her husband,
David, and two sons, Skyler and Maxen.
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