Rosemarie Piemonte was raised in Downers Grove, Illinois. She has many loves in her life: Marine Biology, traveling, writing fiction, and raising her two children. Rosemarie has earned an A.A. degree in Criminal Justice, a diploma in Children's Literature, and is the author of Falling Roses (Authorhouse, 2005) its sequel Falling Roses: The Years Between (AuthorHouse, 2007) and third book in the series Falling Roses: In the Dark (AuthorHouse, 2012).