AlTonya WashingtonAlTonya Washington has been a romance novelist for 15 years. She's traditionally, independently and scholarly published, a winner of the Romance Slam Jam EMMA Award, and two-time winner of The Romantic Times Magazine Reviewer's Choice Award. In Octobr 2019 she received The Reading Warriors Choice Leslie Esdaile Banks Trailblazer Award.

She's a book nut, film buff and music junkie (almost any music from the early 2000s or before) She enjoys writing in an array of genres: T. Onyx for erotica, Ally Fleming for interracial romantic suspense and Temple Carver for mainstream romantic suspense. She's best known for her long-running Ramsey/Tesano multicultural romantic suspense series and will release Book of Scandal: The Tesano Elders in Fall 2019. AlTonya is a mom and works as a Reference Librarian. Read More Read Less