As a child, reading the Ladybird book ‘The Nurse’ sowed the seeds for Colette Cooper’s future career. Using her experiences as a nurse to write medical romances with vibrant, interesting heroes and heroines to fall in love with is a dream come true. Colette lives in a beach house in Australia in her day dreams, but in reality, she lives in the heart of England, just about as far from the sea as it is possible to be in the UK but very close to the home of Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy! As well as writing, she practices yoga, which she isn’t bad at and French, which needs much more practice!Clare Connelly was raised in small-town Australia among a family of avid readers. She spent much of her childhood up a tree, Harlequin book in hand. She is married to her own real-life hero in a bungalow near the sea with their two children. She is frequently found staring into space – a surefire sign she is in the world of her characters. Writing for Harlequin Presents is a long-held dream. Clare can be contacted via clareconnelly.com or on her Facebook page.