In 2010, Jillian Stone won the Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award for her manuscript which was published by Pocket Books in 2012 as An Affair with Mr. Kennedy. She went from having no agent or publisher to signing with Richard Curtis and then being offered a contract by Pocket Books for The Gentlemen of Scotland Yard series. That same summer, she was offered another three-book contract for The Seduction of Phaeton Black (Kensington Brava, 2012). Needless to say, she has been busy writing books for the past two years! Jillian lives in Southern California and is currently working on two new romantic adventures in The Gentlemen of Scotland Yard series.