Connie Brockway

Connie Brockway is an American historical romance novelist and a RITA Award winner recognized for witty, character-driven Regency and Victorian-era romances that frequently subvert genre conventions with sharper humor and more unconventional heroines than much of the traditional historical romance field. Her novels have appeared on national bestseller lists across a career spanning multiple decades and several interconnected series. Brockway is one of three authors, alongside Julia Quinn and Eloisa James, behind the Lady Most duology — The Lady Most Likely... and The Lady Most Willing... — collaborative novels structured around a shared house-party setting in which each author contributed her own storyline and characters that intersect with the other two across the book. The format let three established voices in historical romance combine distinct writing styles within a single unified plot, and both books built on the trio's individual strengths in banter-driven courtship and ensemble-cast plotting. Beyond the Lady Most collaborations, Brockway has published extensively as a solo author within historical romance, and her work is generally noted within the genre for a lighter, more comic tone than many of her Regency-era contemporaries.