Marion Lennox wrote her first romance novel as a dare while on family leave from teaching computing and statistics to undergraduates. She’s now had over 130 novels published by the giant international publisher, Harlequin Mills and Boon, with her books being translated into over thirty languages. She’s twice won Romance Writers of America’s Award for the year’s Best Traditional Romance, she’s been inducted into Romance Writers of Australia’s Hall of Fame, and has been honoured with the United States Romantic Times Career Achievement award for “a body of work which makes us laugh and teaches us about love”.