Layla Hunter's love of romance began at age of eleven when her Nana (referred to lovingly as 'Nanns') slipped her a couple True Romance comic books, along with her first romance novel, and it was love at first sight. Before long, she was writing her own stories and has been doing so for over three decades.  Along with erotic romance, she enjoys writing fantasy/paranormal and contemporary.
 

A New Jersey native, she currently resides in an 1890 Folk Victorian with her husband and daughter, where they are slowly returning to its former beauty. They share this century-old home with a bevy of delightfully comical cats. Oh, and let’s not forget the ‘ghost mice’ … unseen to the human eye, her cats dutifully chase these invisible intruders throughout the house at three o’clock in the morning.

Although the siren call of writing commands most of her time, she also enjoys reading, photography, ghost hunting, belly dancing, shooting sports, movies, music, and actively supports several causes near and dear to her heart. 

Layla has published several erotic shorts in an online magazine, Every Night Erotica, as well as had one of her short stories, Dark Desire, included in XOXO Publishing’s Halloween Anthology, Vol. 1, released October, 2010.

She’s most excited about joining the Secret Cravings Publishing family and her first novella, Skin Deep, is being released February 9, 2011!

Butterfly-inducing romance and a deep emotional connection between her characters are integral to her writing, as is giving readers a chance to escape into her character’s world for a little while where they can be assured of a HEA (or at the very least, a HFN ending). She loves hearing from her readers, fellow writers, and is happy to answer all e-mails.

She is a member of RWA, NJRW, LSFW, Passionate Ink, FF&P RWA, Elements RWA, Erotic Readers & Writers Association, Savvy Authors, Absolute Write, Romance Divas, GoodReads.com and Romance in the Backseat, where she entered and won the 2010 New Year’s Writer’s Rumble with her entry Karma (of which she is in the process of completing), and has several other WIP's.