Candace is married since 1980 and they had a daughter in 1982, who has started on her own career path in the field of acting. Two pseudonyms later (Kristin James and Sharon Stephens), Candace writes under her own name Candace Camp, and still loves creating stories. She gave up the practice of law to devote her time to writing. Candace credits the rigorous training of law school with teaching her the discipline necessary to finish a book. She also began law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and while she was there, she finished her first novel, entitled *Bonds of Love*, that was published by Jove Publishing in 1978, under the pseudonym Lisa Gregory.

It was there that she discovered the romance novel in modern form and started to write her first romance.

She later moved to North Carolina, where she worked in the trust department of a bank. However, in written form, I could express all my thoughts and feelings.' Writing remained only a hobby, though, as Candace attended college at the University of Texas at Austin and West Texas State University, then became a secondary teacher in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Explains Candace: 'I was always very shy and did not talk much. She began writing down her stories when she was about 10, and from then on writing was her favorite form of relaxation. She cannot remember a time when she was not interested in creating stories.

The youngest of three children born into a newspaper family, her mother, Lula Mae (Irons) Camp, had been a reporter and her father, Grady Camp, was the business manager of the Amarillo, Texas, newspaper, some of Candace's earliest memories are of making up stories which she played out on the floor of their den with whatever objects were handy. Candace Pauline Camp was born on in Amarillo, Texas, U.S.A. No Other Love (2001) Little Town in Texas Hard-headed Texan (2001) Smooth-talking Texan (2002) Aincourt 1.

Evensong by Candace Camp