Julie Elizabeth Leto is a best-selling American author of over forty romance novels. Leto's action-adventure novels are sold under the name Julie Leto, as will all future books by the author, who officially dropped her middle name in September 2007. Biography Julie Leto was born and raised in Florida to a family of Italian and Cuban descent. After picking up her first romance when she was only sixteen, Leto knew that she wanted to write one of her own. She earned degrees in Creative Writing and Speech Communications from the University of South Florida. She began writing in 1988, while she was in graduate school. After graduation she became an English teacher at Tampa Catholic High School and continued to write on weekends and at night. In 1996, in order to give herself more time to write, Leto quit her teaching job and joined her family's manufacturing business. The following year she sold her fourth completed novel, Seducing Sullivan to Harlequin Temptation. Shortly thereafter, she gave birth to a daughter and chose to be a full-time writer and mother. Leto was a launch author for the new Harlequin Blaze line, and is the longest continuous member of the Tampa Area Romance Authors organization. Leto has written for Harlequin, Simon & Schuster and Penguin Books. Leto lives in Tampa, Florida. Bibliography Action-Adventure Dirty Little Secrets (2005) Dirty Little Lies (2006) Dare Me (2011, originally published as "Dare to Desire" in Dare Me anthology by NAL/Signet 2005) Dirty Little Christmas (2012) Dirty Dare (2013) Paranormal Romance Stripped (2007) Phantom Pleasures (2008) Phantom's Touch (2008) Something Wicked (2009) Kiss of the Phantom (2009) Phantom Promise (2014) Romance Novels Seducing Sullivan (1998) Private Lessons (1999) Good Girls Do! (2000) Pure Chance (2001) Insatiable (2001) Exposed (2001) What's Your Pleasure? (2002) Just Watch Me. . . (2002) Double the Pleasure (2002) Brazen and Burning (2003) Looking for Trouble (2003) Up to No Good (2003) Line of Fire (2004) Undeniable (2004) Making Waves (2005) The Domino Effect (2006) 3 Seductions and a Wedding (2010) Hard to Hold (2010) Too Hot to Touch (2011) Too Wild to Hold (2011) Too Wicked to Keep (2011) Omnibus Impetuous (1996) (with Lori Foster) Lip Service (2004) (with Lori Foster) Essence of Midnight (2004) (with Susan Kearney, Julie Kenner) Dare Me (2005) (with Cherry Adair and Jill Shalvis) Getting Real (2005) (with Jennifer LaBrecque and Vicki Lewis Thompson) A Fare to