Fiona Brand has always wanted to write.

After working eight years for the New Zealand Forest Service as a clerk, she decided she could spend at least that much time trying to get a novel published.

Luckily it took five years, not eight, before Fiona wrote her first award-winning novel. CULLEN'S BRIDE won the Emma Darcy Award, went on to become a Romance Writers of America Golden Heart finalist, and was subsequently bought and published by Silhouette Books. Now a Waldenbooks and USA Today bestselling author, Fiona has since been nominated for the Romance Writers of America's prestigious RITA Award in the romantic suspense and short novella categories. She has won the Australian Romantic Book of the Year award (category section) twice, one of her novels was listed by Romantic Times as one of their all-time top two hundred favorite romance books and she has been featured in Next and She magazines. Fiona lives in a subtropical South Seas paradise called the Bay of Islands with her two sons.