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Debra Webb is an American author of romance-suspense novels. Webb grew up on a farm outside Scottsboro, Alabama. As a child, she created stories in her head, and began to write them down when she was only nine.

Even as she got older, Webb continued to invent stories. But, once she married, her heavy work schedule as vacuum cleaner salesperson, factory worker, and fast-food worker afforded her little time to write her stories down.

After the birth of the couple's child, Webb returned to school to earn a degree in Business Administration. Her husband joined the military and was eventually stationed in Berlin. The family joined him there, and Debra continued working, this time as a secetary in the commanding general's office. In 1985 the family returned to the US, and Webb went to work as an executive secretary at NASA.

In 1995, after a chronic illness, Webb decided to focus on her stories again. For three years, she researched the romance novel market, and in 1998 she sold her first novel—a comedic romance. Six weeks later, she sold a second novel, this time to Harlequin.

Today, Debra Webb is the author of more than 150 novels, a number of them bestsellers on the USA Today list. She has more than four million books in print in many languages and countries.

Webb is the recipient of the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for Romantic Suspense, as well as numerous Reviewers’ Choice Awards. In 2012 became the first recipient of the L. A. Banks Warrior Woman Award for courage, strength, and grace in the face of adversity. When she published her 100th novel, she received the distinguished Centennial Award.  (From the publisher.)