Minerva Spencer is the pen name of S.M. LaViolette.

S.M. is a Canadian transplant who now lives in the mountains of New Mexico. She began writing in 2013 after closing her 8-room bed and breakfast (a subject she will never write about. . . )

She’s been a criminal prosecutor, college history professor, and bartender, among many other things.

She currently writes smart and sexy historical romance full-time and operates a small poultry rescue on her four-acre hobby farm, where she lives with her wonderful, tolerant husband and many animals.

When she isn’t writing or editing she’s playing with birds and dogs or doing a little DIY.