 Kennedy grew up with a love of fantasy and romance, and eventually decided to combine the two genres.She began by writing mainly short stories in speculative fiction, and was able to publish one story, "Spirit Quest", in the 1996 edition of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress series (a fantasy anthology).Kennedy made her publishing debut with "Beneath the Thirteen Moons" in 2003, and Five Star Press (Gale) published it in hardcover in 2010; Kennedy decided to focus on historical fiction soon after the novel's initial publication date.