Eileen Dreyer is an American author of contemporary romance, historical romance and suspense, and also publishes under the pen name Kathleen Korbel.

She is a five-time winner of the Romance Writers of America RITA Award and in 1995 was inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame.

Dreyer was born in St. Louis, Missouri and at the age of nineteen she began work as a trauma nurse.

[2] She is trained in forensic nursing and death investigation and lives in Brentwood, Missouri with her husband and children.

[4] She published her first novel as Kathleen Korbel in 1986, writing for Harlequin's Silhouette category imprint.

She said that "as a trauma nurse...she enjoyed writing romance because she liked to see good things happen to people, and scripting the story, she could be sure of that.

"[5] Having grown up in a non-dysfunctional family, she said that working in the ER helped to show her the definition of a hero.

"[2] Dreyer was a contestant on the October 30, 2014, episode of Jeopardy!, though she didn't win.

category was English Monarchs, and I had to place my bet before I knew the answer.

I bet $6,200 because I had a strong feeling after my own history with historical romance, I would know this one.

And yes, I knew that the two kings, one of the boys Richard III allegedly killed in the Tower, and the king who abdicated for Wallace Simpson, were named Edward.