Kristin Hannah — American Writer born on December 30, 1960,

Kristin Hannah is an award-winning and bestsellingAmerican writer, who has won numerous awards, including the Golden Heart, the Maggie, and the 1996 National Reader's Choice award... (wikipedia)

A romance novel focuses exclusively on two people falling in love. It can't be about a woman caring for her aging mother or something like that. It can have that element, but it has to be primarily about the male-female relationship.
What I know now about life is this: your mother is a part of everything you do and everything you are.
We women. as glue for the family. lead lives that are important and conflicted. What we women choose to give up for our families is important and valid.
Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.
I am such a Pacific Northwest girl.