Carol Marinelli recently filled in a form asking for her job title. Thrilled to be able to put down her answer, she put writer. Then it asked what Carol did for relaxation and she put down the truth - writing. The third question asked for her hobbies. Well, not wanting to look obsessed she crossed the fingers on her hand and answered swimming but, given that the chlorine in the pool does terrible things to her highlights - I'm sure you can guess the real answer.

Louisa Heaton first started writing romance in secondary school and would take her stories in to show her friends, scrawled on lined A4 in a big red binder, with plenty of crossing out.

She dreamt of romance herself and found her own husband in the pen pals wanted column of an animal magazine she subscribed to. After only knowing him for three weeks, she shocked her parents by agreeing to his proposal of marriage and heading off to Surrey to live with him.

Once there, she began writing stories of romance again and discovered the wonderful world of Medicals. After four children, including a set of twins, and fifteen years of trying to get published, she finally got The Call she'd been waiting for!

Now she lives on Hayling Island, by the beach and when she's not being a First Responder, providing emergency life support for South Central Ambulance Service, she creates her stories as she wanders up and down the wonderful Hampshire coastline with her two dogs, talking to herself and scaring the locals.

Fiona McArthur has worked as a rural midwife for twenty-five years. She is a clinical midwifery educator and teaches emergency obstetric strategies while working with midwives and doctors from remote and isolated areas.

Fiona has written more than thirty romances, which have sold over two million copies in twelve languages. She is a midwifery expert for Mother and Baby magazine and the author of the novels Red Sand Sunrise and The Homestead Girls. She lives in northern New South Wales.