Born and educated in Stoke-on-Trent, Margaret Kaine now lives in Leicester. Her short stories have been published in women`s magazines in Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, South Africa and Norway. She won the 2002 Romantic Novelists` Association/Reader`s Digest Of Love and Life New Writer`s Award and also the Society of Authors` Sagittarius Prize for her first novel, Ring of Clay, published in 2002.