I was born in Liverpool at a time when the Beatles were becoming famous. My family moved to the Wirral on the “posh” side of the river Mersey when I was eleven. I attended the local girls’ grammar school, going on to college where I graduated with a Medical Secretarial Diploma.

I worked as a medical secretary to an ophthalmic surgeon before going on to work as a legal secretary. In 1980 I moved to Scotland with my husband. I spent the next twenty years living in a croft on the outskirts of a village in the Highlands, and while there, managed a company involved in the offshore oil industry. I feel Scotland is my spiritual home, which probably the reason why I used it for the setting of my second novel.

I have always enjoyed writing, mainly in the form of short stories and letters to friends. An avid reader, my hobbies also include travelling the world, designing knitwear, and gardening. I currently live in South Yorkshire with my partner, Stephen, and Border collie, Lucy. I worked for the National Health Service.

I started writing my first novel, Three Weeks Last Spring, in 2000, but didn’t complete it until 2004. It was published in 2005 and is due to be re-released by Vanilla Heart Publishing in June 2009.

My second novel, The House on the Shore, will be published in spring 2009. I am currently working on a third novel, Ring of Lies.

I am a member of the Romance Writers of America and the Romantic Novelists Association.