Leto's action-adventure novels are sold under the name Julie Leto, as will all future books by the author,[citation needed] who officially dropped her middle name in September 2007.[citation needed]
Biography
Julie Leto was born and raised in
Florida to a family of Italian and Cuban descent.[citation needed] After picking up her first romance when she was only sixteen, Leto knew that she wanted to write one of her own.[citation needed] She earned degrees in Creative Writing and Speech Communications from the
University of South Florida. She began writing in 1988, while she was in graduate school. After graduation she became an English teacher at
Tampa Catholic High School and continued to write on weekends and at night. In 1996, in order to give herself more time to write, Leto quit her teaching job and joined her family's manufacturing business. The following year she sold her fourth completed novel, Seducing Sullivan to
Harlequin Temptation. Shortly thereafter, she gave birth to a daughter and chose to be a full-time writer and mother.
Leto was a launch author for the new Harlequin Blaze line, and is the longest continuous member of the
Tampa Area Romance Authors organization. Leto has written for Harlequin, Simon & Schuster and Penguin Books. Leto lives in
Tampa, Florida.[citation needed]
Bibliography
Action-Adventure
Dirty Little Secrets (2005)
Dirty Little Lies (2006)
Dare Me (2011, originally published as "Dare to Desire" in Dare Me anthology by NAL/Signet 2005)