I first decided to become an author at about age 7 when I discovered Narnia (sadly not in the back of a wardrobe but on a bookshelf in the school library). Once I realised the written word could transport me from the humdrum of daily life to somewhere amazing where normal rules didn't apply,I was hooked. C S Lewis led me to Kenneth Graham and then Enid Blyton, until a teenage diet of Errol Flynn movies and Jean Plaidy novels inspired my love affair with history. Fair Game came about by accident; I was writing a book which involved flash-backs to the seventeenth century, which I sent to a literary consultancy for help with editing. They loved the historical element of the story and suggested it could hold its own as a novel in its own right, so I set about a new draft. Essentially a love story, Fair Game is based in the 17th century, during the English civil war. The plot and setting came about when I read about the women who took on the defence of their homes when their husbands left to fight. The novel was written to celebrate these women’s ingenuity and courage. I was also drawn to the 1640s because of the religious upheaval taking place alongside the political unrest; the new religions pitted against each other, only united in one respect – the persecution of ‘witches’. I do like a bit of romance mingled with a smattering of the occult, and I hope Fair Game achieves this.