Torn between honor and desire...

Innocent Margriet Gunnarsdottir carried a heavy secret. She faced a perilous journey to the wild and distant north of Scotland, and her safety lay in her adopted disguise--a nun's habit! But her only protector, a proud, rough-hewn Highlander, made her ache to share her crushing burden.

Rurik Erengislsson had sworn to see her home and unharmed. A woman promised to the service of God should be shielded and honored--not desired! Yet Rurik was tempted beyond reason to make this beautiful waif his own.

After being a voracious reader all of her life and a writer for most of it, Terri found romance novels (again) when she read Julie Garwood's The Prize in 1991. Then in late 1994 she began writing romance fiction. Her first novel, Secrets in the Game, remains hidden under her bed waiting for a good time to make an appearance. However, it's her second novel, A Love Through Time, that was her debut in November 1998 from Jove Time Passages.

Featured in the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Camden Courier-Post, Terri appeared on NBC's The Today Show in May 2002 and appeared on cable's Lifetime network's Our Home Show in the spring of 1997. Her fifth book, The Dumont Bride, was a Harlequin Historical release in November 2002.

In real life, Terri is a wife and a mom of three boys and lives in southern New Jersey. During her years as a registered dental hygienist, she also served as editor of several professional newsletters and journals. Serving as president of the New Jersey Romance Writers for 2002 and 2003, Terri is also a member of Romance Writers of America, Washington D.C. and the Valley Forge local chapters as well as the Beau Monde special interest chapter and Novelists, Inc. She's also one of the organizers of the ToBeez (aka the Rising Stars of Romance), an email loop/support network for authors who have sold their first book and are yet-to-be-published.

To contact her, send an SASE to: P.O. Box 41, Berlin, NJ 08009-0041 or email her at terri@terribrisbin.com.