Deveraux has written over 40 novels, many of which have been on The New York Times Best Seller list, including such titles as A Knight in Shining Armor and Remembrance; she has sold over 50 million copies as of 2016.

[6][7] Deveraux wrote A Girl From Summer Hill, a contemporary reimagining of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in 2016.

[citation needed] Their son died in 2005, at the age of eight, when he was hit by a truck near their home in North Carolina.

She initially visited Marks for a psychic reading, due to problems with her marriage to White and with infertility.

[4] Over the course of 17 years, Marks extracted between 17 and 20 million dollars from Deveraux, leaving her with almost no money despite her lucrative writing career.