Paige Badgett is a historical romance author of Austen-inspired fiction.

 

Paige is a lifelong storyteller who credits her love of reading to her mother and her book club that has been reading together for eighteen years. ​Her debut novel, Against Every Expectation, published in 2022. Her short story, The Heart’s Consent, was published in the 2022 multi-author anthology, An Inducement into Matrimony, which includes nine short stories inspired by Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The Making of Lady Catherine de Bourgh is her second novel.

 

Paige lives in the Kansas City area with her husband and son. By day, she is a communications professional for a technology corporation. In her free time, she can often be found reading, drinking coffee from her favorite mug, gardening, or cheering from the sidelines of her son's soccer games.