I grew up in Cambridgeshire, joining the RAF when I was 18. I then married and had my son. When I divorced, I moved back to my home town and raised my son there. Since moving back, I’ve worked mainly in retail, currently stretching my brain in an optician’s. I started writing in early 2013, as an escape from a job I hated and found that, not only did I enjoy the process, people seemed to like what I had written, so I’ve gone on to write several more books and have even more in progress. Outside of work and writing, I love reading (of course), cinema and theatre, especially a good musical. I also really enjoy photography and cruising. The latter giving me many opportunities to pursue the former. Apart from that, I drink far too much coffee, I like wine a little too much, my worse trait is probably procrastination and I have a weakness for black cats. I write romance novels and have also written teen fantasy under the pen name ‘Elise Rayne’. I am a bit of a publishing hybrid, I have titles published with Bella Tulip Publishing but I also have several independently published titles under my belt.