Parris Afton Bonds is an American historical romantic fiction novelist.

Bonds started her professional writing career in the early 1970s with her first sale to Modern Secretary magazine, and in 1981 Time magazine called Bonds one of the many women who supplement their family income by writing romance novels.

[3] She has donated her time, teaching creative writing to female inmates and school children, both of whom she considers her captive audiences.

"[5] She is the author of more than fifty books and the mother of five sons, two of whom were born In Mexico City, where she lived in the early 1970s.

Writers who influenced Bonds early on were Dorothy Dunnett, Rafael Sabatini, Sergeanne Golan, Frank Yerby, Daphne du Maurier, Samuel Shellabarger, Jan Westcott, and Edna Ferber.