Nikita Black is the pseudonym of bestselling author Nina Bruhns. As Nikita, she writes cutting edge erotic romance for Cajun Hot Press. As Nina, she is the award-winning author of over twenty-five novels. Nina currently writes romantic thrillers for Berkley Publishing—a division of Penguin-Putnam—and occasionally self-publishes romantic suspense and paranormal romance novels for Cajun Hot Press.

A two-time RITA nominee—the RITA is the women’s fiction equivalent of the Academy Awards—Nina’s numerous writing awards and honors have also included three Daphne du Maurier Awards for Best Overall Mystery-Suspense Book of the year, a National Readers Choice Award, five Dorothy Parker Awards of Excellence, two RT Bookclub Reviewers Choice Awards for Best Romantic Suspense of the Year, and one for Best Nocturne of the Year. Her Nikita Black novels have been winning awards for over a decade, and have regularly appeared on the ebook bestseller lists, once for a stretch of over a year at the number one spot.

Nikita's most recent release was SLAVE TO LOVE, a sizzlingly controversial thriller noir that has sparked more than one heated discussion on the reader forums. Nina’s 25th novel, RED HEAT, book 1 in her current Berkley trilogy, was released this past June. Book 2, WHITE HOT, will be published in summer 2012. She is also planning to release three new straight-to-ebook titles in the coming year.