Beverley OakleyBeverley was seventeen when she bundled up her first 500+ page romance and sent it to a publisher. Rejection followed swiftly. Drowning one's heroine on the last page, she was informed, was not in line with the expectations of romance readers. So Bevrley became a journalist. After a whirlwind romance with a handsome Norwegian bush pilot she met in Botswana's beautiful Okavango Delta, Beverley discovered what real romance was all about, saved her heroine from a watery grave in her next manuscript and published her first romance in 2009. Since then, she's written more than twenty-five sizzling historical romances laced with mystery and intrigue under the name Beverley Oakley. She also writes psychological historical mysteries, and Colonial-Africa-set romantic suspense, as Beverley Eikli. With an inspiring view of a Gothic nineteenth-century insane asylum across the road, Beverley lives north of Melbourne with her gorgeous husband, two teenaged daughters and a rambunctious Rhodesian Ridgeback called Mombo, named after the safari lodge where she and her husband met. You can read more at www.beverleyoakley.com Read More Read Less