Lilian Margaret Peake was born on 25 May 1924 in London, England, UK. During the World War II, she moved to the countryside. Her early ambition was to be a journalist, and she ended up working at various newspapers and magazines around England. She also married and started a family, and eventually she decided start to writing romance novels. She wrote over 65 romance novels for Mills & Boon from 1971 to 1996 as Lilian Peake. Lilian passed away in 27 May 1997.