Deb Gardner Allard
As a Christian wife, proud mom, and romance enthusiast, Deb Gardner Allard pens clean, often humorous Indie novels laced with heartwarming moments. She credits Hallmark movies and chick flicks for imparting their charming formulas. In her spare time, she reads many different genres, but gravitates to romance.
In her early life, Deb spent a tour of duty in the Navy, then traveled the United States with her career Navy husband while earning a B.S. degree in psychology and an RN degree. It wasn’t until she retired from nursing, that she pursued her lifelong zest for writing, sparked by a fifth-grade Daughters of the American Revolution medal she won for a story about the tragedy of Donner's Pass.
Over her fifteen-year writing career, Deb won a f
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