After her youngest child entered school in 1989 she began writing in the hopes that she could build a career that would allow her to work from home.
None of her first eight manuscripts sold, but in July 1993 her ninth, True Blue, was purchased by Silhouette Books.
[1][2] Generally Weaver writes two to three novels per year, taking up to five months to finish each work.
The novels are most often classified as romantic suspense, and the protagonists are put into life-or-death situations in order more clearly reveal their true characters and feelings.
Weaver also enjoys including animals in her stories "because they're usually excellent judges of character.