An early fan of suspense romance novels, Riona Kelly began writing them as a teenager, but it was many years later before she published her first novel. A fan of Mary Stewart, Helen McInnes, Taylor Caldwell, Patricia Cornwell, Morgan Llewellyn, and Sharon K. Penman, she devoured their books and began building fantasies of her own. Her first novel, “Bitter Vintage” was published at the end of 2015, followed up with the first of a new series, An American Rose Abroad in 2018. The first book in the series is "Echoes of the Past."  

Born in El Paso, Texas, she now makes her home in south Reno, Nevada where she enjoys the beauty of the region and is close enough to California to visit those vineyards that provided the inspiration for her book. When she isn’t writing, she enjoys Celtic music and plays the guitar, dabbles with painting canvases, preferably combined in a wine party, and likes to watch films with romantic plots and good storylines. It helps if they have a handsome, sexy leading man and a lot of adventure.

You can find out more about Riona and her books at http://pynhavyn.com/writers/pynhavyn-writers/riona-kelly/