Madeline Hunter's first book By Arrangement was published in 2000 and she received the award for Waldenbooks Bestselling Debut Author that year.
[1] In 2000 she also received a rare starred review from Publishers Weekly for her book By Possession.
[2] She has been nominated four times and has twice won the Romance Writers of America's prestigious RITA award, first in the long historical category for Stealing Heaven in 2003 and then in the historical category for Lessons of Desire in 2008.
Romantic Times has awarded four and a half star reviews to fifteen of her books.
[3] Madeline Hunter speaks at writers' conferences and events on craft and industry, is a Ph.D. in Art History.