Pepper Basham is an award-winning author who writes romance “peppered” with grace and humor. Writing both historical and contemporary novels, she loves to incorporate her native Appalachian culture and/or her unabashed adoration of the UK into her stories. She resides in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia where she is a wife, mom of five, speech-language pathologist, and a lover of chocolate, jazz, hats, and Jesus. You can learn more about Pepper and her books on her website at www.pepperdbasham.com.

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Pepper Basham is an award-winning author who writes romance peppered with grace and humor. She resides in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia where she is a wife, mom of five, speech-language pathologist, and a lover of chocolate, jazz, hats, and Jesus. She writes both contemporary and historical novels and sprinkles the love for her Appalachian heritage and her slight obsession with the UK into many of them. Her novels have garnered recognition in the Grace Awards, Inspys, ACFW’s Carol Awards, the Christys, and the ECPA Bestseller list. With a desire to bring hope to the readers, her stories showcase strong characters, family dynamics, sense of place, and internal growth as well as taking the readers to various settings across the globe. Whether a reader is looking for romance with humor, sweeping dramatic love stories in a historical settings, or madcap mysteries to tickle the funny bone and quicken the pulse, Pepper’s eclectic booklist offers something for most readers. Her twenty-eighth book, Sense and Suitability, releases in October 2025 and is her first foray into Regency romance.