Bornand raised on the Wirral Peninsula in England, CharlotteHawkes is mum to two intrepid boys who love her to play building blockgames with them, and object loudly to the amount of time she spends on thecomputer. When she isn’t writing—or building with blocks—she is companydirector for a small Anglo/French construction firm. Charlotte loves to hearfrom readers, and you can contact her at her website: charlotte-hawkes.com.Award-winning author Louisa George has been an avid reader her whole life. In between chapters she managed to train as a nurse, marry her doctor hero and have two sons. Now she writes chapters of her own in the medical romance, contemporary romance and women's fiction genres. Louisa's books have variously been nominated for the coveted RITA Award, and the NZ Koru Award and have been translated into twelve languages. She lives in Auckland, New Zealand.