Following her M.A., King wrote her first novel, The Black Thorne's Rose, which was published by Penguin/Topaz in September 1994.
[2] Many of her novels, which have been published in several foreign languages,[2] feature Celtic legends and myths.
Her passion for art and history lend her books a high level of historical accuracy and detail that set King's work apart from many others in the genre.
King has been nominated for the Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Long Historical.
[2] She has been the recipient of the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Medieval Novel and the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for Career Achievement in Medieval Historical Romance.