Short Bio

Award-winning and USA Today Bestselling author Dani Collins thrives on giving readers emotional, compelling, heart-soaring romance with laughter and heat thrown in, just like real life. While she is best known for writing contemporary romance for Harlequin Presents and Tule Publishing, she also writes historical and erotic romance. When she’s not writing—just kidding, she’s always writing. Dani is married to her high school sweetheart. They’re empty-nesters and live in Southern BC, Canada.

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Fast Facts

• Dani is the eldest of three girls. She's married to the youngest of three boys.
• In 2014, Dani achieved a life-long dream by quitting her day job (with much terror and her husband's blessing) and became a full-time romance author.
• Dani swam competitively as child. (Not for very long, and she wasn't that competitive, but she did make it to the BC Summer Games.)
• Dani wrote and submitted for twenty-five years before making her first sale.
• Dani lives in Canada and has two adult children with her high school sweetheart. They've been married forever.

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Career Highlights

• In December of 2025, His Highness's Hidden Heir became Dani's 60th Harlequin!
• Dani's fifty-fifth Harlequin title, The Baby His Secretary Carries, released Jan 1, 2024
• Publisher's Weekly gave Dani's first Historical Western, The Prospector's Only Prospect a starred review, calling it "a delightful twist on the mail order bride trope..."
• Dani's fiftieth Harlequin title, Wedding Night with the Wrong Billionaire, released Nov 1, 2022
• Dani's forty-fifth Harlequin, Manhattan's Most Scandalous Reunion, released September 1, 2021

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Articles & Interviews

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Awards

• Dani's Harlequin Presents, Bound by Their Nine-Month Scandal was a 2019 Reader's Choice Finalist.
• In 2013 Proof Of Their Sin won the Reviewer’s Choice Award from Romantic Times Magazine for Best First In Series.
• In 2008, Dani finaled in Mills and Boon's Instant Seduction contest, which led to her first sale in 2012.
• In 2005, Hustled To The Altar was a finalist in Romantic Times Magazine's American Title contest.
• In 2002, Hustled To The Altar was a Golden Heart finalist.

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