Constance Fecher was born on 6 August 1911. She started writing historical novels with young protagonists as Constance Heaven in 1963, and since 1972, she used her married name, Constance Heaven, to sign novels more romantic, but also reedited many of her first novels under these name. She also wrote some portrait-book and novels under the pseudonym Christina Merlin. In 1973, her novel "The House of Kuragin" was the Winner of the Romantic Novel of the Year Award, and years later she was elected the eleventh Chairman (1981-1983) of the Romantic Novelists' Association. Connie passed away in 1995.