About Merrigan Calder

Merrigan Calder is the darker-romance pen name of USA Today best-selling author Heather Slade. Like her romantic suspense books, in Merrigan's titles, her heroes—while morally gray—are sublimely sexy, seductive alphas. Her heroines are confident, strong, resilient, and determined. Both are always shamelessly sexy.

The road to HEA in Merrigan's books may be a little longer, tougher to navigate, and filled with a higher level of angst, but no less satisfying at the journey's end.

Click here to view Merrigan Calder's first series, The Thorned Thistle, set in Caithness, a historic county in the far north of Scotland, known for its rugged coastline and landscape influenced by both the Atlantic Ocean and the Pentland Firth.