<p>Mary Strand practiced corporate law in a large Minneapolis law firm for sixteen years until the day she set aside her pointy-toed shoes (or most of them) and escaped the land of mergers and acquisitions to write novels. The first novel she wrote, <em>Cooper’s Folly,</em> won Romance Writers of America’s Golden Heart award and was her debut novel.</p><p></p><p>Mary lives on a lake in Minneapolis with her husband, two cute kidlets, and a stuffed monkey named Philip. When not writing, she lives for sports, travel, guitar, dancing (badly), Cosmos, Hugh Jackman, and ill-advised adventures that offer a high probability of injury to herself and others. She writes YA, romantic comedy, and women’s fiction novels. <em>Pride, Prejudice, and Push-Up Bras</em> is the first in her four-book YA series, The Bennet Sisters.</p><p></p><p>You can find Mary at www.marystrand.com, follow her on Twitter or Instagram(@Mary_Strand), or “like” her on Facebook (www.facebook.com/marystrandauthor).</p>
