Fiona Brand has always wanted to write. After working eight years for the New Zealand Forest Service as a clerk, she decided she could spend at least that much time trying to get a novel published. Luckily it took five years, not eight, before Fiona wrote her first award-winning novel. She has won the Australian Romantic Book of the Year award (category section) twice, one of her novels was listed by Romantic Times as one of their all-time top two hundred favorite romance books and she has been featured in Next and She magazines. Fiona lives in a subtropical South Seas paradise called the Bay of Islands with her two sons.