Penelope Marzec grew up along the Jersey shore. She started reading romances at a young age and fell hopelessly in love with happy endings. Penelope was first published in 2001 with Sea of Hope, which won the 2002 EPIC Award for Best Inspirational Novel. That was followed by Heaven's Blue, which won EPIC's Award for Best Inspirational in 2005. Patriot's Courage, published in 2020, won the 2021 National Excellence in Story Telling contest. She is a member of the New Jersey Romance Writers and the Liberty States Fiction Writers.