Denise Hunter

In 2016 two of Hunter’s novels were adapted into Hallmark movies: The Convenient Groom, starring Vanessa Marcil and David Sutcliffe, and A December Bride, starring Jessica Lowndes and Daniel Lissing. In 2019, Hunter’s novel The Goodbye Bride was adapted as Christmas on My Mind, starring Ashley Greene and Andrew Walker, on the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Channel.

Kansas Brides (2004 Barbour Publishing) which includes the following four stories:

In 1996, inspired by the death of her grandfather, Hunter began writing her first novel, Stranger’s Bride. She has said that her early works were written while her children napped.

Hunter was born in 1968 in Middletown, Ohio. She graduated from Madison High School and attended Sinclair Community College, where she majored in graphic art for two years. In 1989 she married Kevin Hunter and they moved to Indiana, where she began attending Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne, changing her major to secondary education. Three years later, Hunter quit college to stay home with her two children. During this time, Hunter began to dream of writing a novel, but because life as a young mother was busy, she did not have time to write.