Merline Lovelace

Merline Lovelace (born 1946 in Northampton, Massachusetts) is an American romance novelist recognized with a Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Romance Novella for 'Final Approach to Forever,' included in the anthology Once Upon a Dream. Prolific across the romance genre, she has written extensively in its paranormal and time-travel branches, including entries in the Time Raiders series — built around a covert unit of operatives who travel through history — and contributions to holiday-themed paranormal collections such as Holiday with a Vampire. Lovelace has frequently collaborated with other romance authors on multi-author anthologies and continuity series, pairing category-romance pacing with adventure and speculative premises. Her body of work reflects several decades of steady output within the genre's short-format and paranormal traditions.