Caitlin Crews discovered her first romance novel at the age of twelve and has since conducted a life-long love affair with romance novels, many of which she insists on keeping near her at all times. She currently lives in the Pacific Northwest, with her animator/comic book artist husband and their menagerie of ridiculous animals.

Heidi Rice was born and bred and still lives in London, England. She has two boys who love to bicker, a wonderful husband who, luckily for everyone, has the patience of Job and a supportive and ever-growing British/French/Irish/American family. She also has two hamsters, one of whom looks suspiciously like a rat.

As much as Heidi adores "the Big Smoke", she also loves America and every two years or so she and her best friend Catri leave hubby and kids behind and Thelma and Louise it across the States for a couple of weeks (although they always leave out the driving-off-a-cliff bit). Some of their favorite haunts so far have included Monument Valley, the Nantahala Forest in North Carolina, St. Michls in Maryland, Marfa in Texas and the Big Easy itself, New Orleans-but they're always on the lookout for new places to explore.

Heidi's been a film buff since her early teens and a romance junkie for almost as long. She indulged her first love by being a film reviewer for the last ten years for the British newspaper The Daily Mail and its Irish sister paper. Some might call this a dream job-until they had to watch five-hundred Jean-Claude Van Damme films and find something new to say about each one. So a few years ago Heidi decided to pursue a new dream job, writing romance.

Discovering the fantastic sisterhood of romance writers (both published and unpublished) in Britain, Australia and America made it a wild and wonderful journey to achieve her dream and become a published Harlequin novelist. That said, she still finds time to watch the odd movie-preferably ones with Johnny Depp. She loves to hear from her readers.

Michelle has always been a voracious reader and always loved to write. So it stands to reason that one day those two great loves would come together. The turning point came when she had to decide whether or not to take up a psychology honours position at university.

With her youngest child about to start kindergarten she decided to defer the honours placement and penned three chapters of what was to become her first completed novel and sent it out into the slush pile at Harlequin Mills and Boon. She then did a 10 day Vipassana retreat and sat down to write more stories.

The Vipassana retreat was instrumental in Michelle's journey from dream writer to published author because when the editors at Mills and Boon requested the full manuscript of “Girl Behind the Scandalous Reputation” she was – after many years of self-doubt – finally in the right headspace to take up the challenge and pursue a life-long dream.

What followed was a marvellous roller coaster of a journey where she learnt that there is more to being a writer than the romantic notion of finishing up a wonderfully productive morning at the computer and then swanning along the Seine with a glass of vin rouge, a smile and roasting chestnuts on every street corner!

One of my more fantastical notions of the writer's life… Possibly driven by the fact that she's read Hemmingway's A Moveable Feast way too many times and not because she lives in Paris. In fact, she lives 15,000 kilometres from Paris! Before writing full time Michelle studied at the University of Melbourne and then at Monash University, worked on a myriad of different careers and travelled extensively.

She currently lives in Melbourne, Australia with her husband and three children, a Siamese cat and three chickens. When she's not writing Michelle reads, watches movies, thinks about exercise and spends time with her family. She writes sexy, contemporary romance novels with strong heroes and sassy, modern heroines they can't resist.

Abby Green spent her teens reading Mills & Boon romances. She then spent many years working in the Film and TV industry as an Assistant Director. One day while standing outside an actor's trailer in the rain, she thought: there has to be more than this. So she sent off a partial to Harlequin Mills & Boon. After many rewrites, they accepted her first book and an author was born. She lives in Dublin, Ireland.