Alyssa J Montgomery
Also writing Historical Romance under
Alyssa James
Alyssa grew up in Central Queensland, Australia, and studied Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Queensland. During her days as a student, and also upon graduation, she moon-lighted in restaurants as a professional pianist.
Her first Speech Pathology job took her to the Hunter Valley, New South Wales. Then, the lure of travelling the world called, and she left her profession for 18 months to become an international flight attendant for Qantas Airways. The excitement of travelling to exotic locations on different continents was fabulous and one she enjoyed…until she met her soul mate! Romance became the priority over travelling. Given that most of the time Alyssa was on one side of the world and her husband, an international pilot, was on the other, it was time to go back to Speech Pathology, the other profession she loves!
Still very happily married and three wonderful children later, Alyssa has obtained a Masters Degree in Science and she worked in her busy private Speech Pathology practice until 2026, when she retired to spend more time writing.
An avid reader of romance since her late teens, she began writing romances in the evenings when the birth of her twins kept her at home as a full-time mother.
Alyssa has multiple titles published through Escape Publishing (Harlequin Enterprises, Australia) and audiobooks by Bolinda. Some of her titles have been finalists/winners over the years in the Australian Romance Readers Association annual awards and in 2025 her title "Return to Hope Creek" came third in the Romance Writers of New Zealand Koru Awards and was the winner of the Australian Romance Writers of Australia Romantic Book of the Year (RUBY Award) for long contemporary romance.
Apart from her writing and work, Alyssa’s favourite pastimes include cheering her very sporty children on from the sidelines, travelling with the family, reading, entertaining, gardening and playing tennis. She and her family live south of Sydney on a five acre property that they share with a dog, three horses, goats, numerous chickens and visits from deer, wallabies, echidnas and beautiful native birds (as well as some natives with scales and fangs!).
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RURAL ROMANCE
HOPE CREEK SERIES
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CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE
Stand Alone Titles
THE BILLIONAIRE MEETS HIS MATCH
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Alyssa has recently acquired the rights back for this story. New Cover and Buy Links, as well as translation editions, coming soon. |
THE ROYAL AFFAIRS SERIES
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MEDIEVAL TITLES
(WRITTEN AS ALYSSA JAMES)
CONQUERING THE HEART SERIES
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