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Maureen Smith

Maureen Smith is an American bestselling author of over 30 novels and several novellas featuring scorching romance, spine-tingling romantic suspense, and edgy women’s fiction.

Maureen Smith spent her early childhood in Iowa before her family relocated to Maryland. After graduating from Largo High School in Upper Marlboro, Maureen attended the University of Maryland in College Park. She has a BA in English and minored in creative writing.

After graduating in 1995, Maureen worked for a local newspaper, a small publishing company, and a nonprofit organization before she struck out on her own as a freelance writer.

Her articles were featured in various magazines, websites, and newspapers, including the Baltimore Afro-American and Prince George’s Journal.

Maureen Smith debuted with the novel Ghosts of Fire in 2002. Following the publication, Midwest Book Review called Maureen “a writer of considerable promise and ability.”

Many of her books have been designated an RT BOOKreviews “Top Pick,” and seven have been nominated for RT Reviewers’ Choice awards. Maureen Smith has also been nominated for numerous Emma Awards, winning her first in 2010 for Secret Agent Seduction and winning several after that.

Her novel, Recipe for Temptation, was named one of the Best Reviewed Books of 2010 by Urban Reviews and won an RT Reviewers’ Choice award and three Emma awards.

She also received awards from Building Relationships Around Books (B.R.A.B.) in 2014 and 2015. Maureen’s books have appeared on bestseller lists for USA Today, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Harlequin, and Mosaic Books, to name a few.

Maureen Smith also writes pseudonymously as Naomi Chase. Her women’s fiction novels, Exposed and Deception, were chosen a “Top Pick” from RT BOOK reviews and were nominated for RT Reviewers’ Choice awards.

In 2012, Naomi Chase was named Featured Author of the Year and Featured Romance Author of the Year by Shades of Romance Magazine.

Maureen Smith lives with her husband and two children in Houston, Texas.

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