

During her days at Queens College, New York, acting started to lose its glamour as Marie spent more and more time writing. Marie was only 14 when she first laid eyes on the man she would marry, truly her first love, Charles Ferrarella.

I was a detective on '77 Sunset Strip,' the missing Cartwright sibling they never talked about on 'Bonanza' and the 'Girl from U.N.C.L.E.' before there was a 'Girl from U.N.C.L.E.,' not to mention an active participant in the serialized stories of 'The Mickey Mouse Club.'" Marie began to write her first romance novel when she was 11 years old, although she claims that, at the time, she didn't even realize it was a romance! She scribbled off and on, while dreaming of a career as an actress.

"Initially, I began writing myself into my favourite shows. Marie swears she was born writing, "which must have made the delivery especially hard for my mother." From an early age, Marie's parents would find her watching television or tucked away in some private place, writing at a furious pace. For an entire year, Marie and her family explored the eastern half of the country before finally settling in New York. Marie Rydzynski was born on March 28 in West Germany to Polish parents. Aka Marie Charles, Marie Michael, Marie Nicole, Marie Ferrarella
