Roxanne St. Claire is an American author of romance and romantic suspense. Born Roxanne Zink and raised in Pittsburgh, she studied communications at UCLA and worked in television and public relations before publishing her first novel in 2003. She has written some fifty books, across the Bullet Catchers, Guardian Angelinos, Barefoot Bay, The Dogfather and The Dogmothers series, and contributed to Harlequin Desire's Garrisons continuity. A ten-time RITA Award nominee and one-time winner, she has taken the National Reader's Choice Award for romantic suspense four times. She lives in Florida.