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Jessica Hart's first memories are of Africa, where she was born, and she grew up with incurably itchy feet. In her time, she has traveled from Afghanistan to Australia, from Algeria to Belize, from Cameroon to Indonesia, with various stops en route, having a wonderful time, but failing dismally to live as dangerously as she had always secretly wanted.

Before becoming a full-time writer, her career, if you can call it that, consisted of a haphazard series of jobs around the world. Her last 'proper' job was on the foreign news desk of a national newspaper. Before that, she was on expedition in West Africa, cooked on an outback cattle station, taught English as a foreign language, was production assistant for a theatre company and research assistant for a publisher of restaurant guides and filled in the gaps between by working as a secretary, waitress, chambermaid and dishwasher. Regular readers will probably recognize how often she has drawn on her varied experience for inspiration when it comes to setting and plot!

Now she lives in York, an historic city in the north of England with Mungo, a West Highland White terrier, and two very large, very standoffish tabbies. At the end of the road are the medieval city walls and the famous Minster, one of the most beautiful buildings in Europe. While still yearning for wide horizons, she has perversely chosen to study for a PhD in Medieval Studies, so between that and writing romance, deadlines have become a way of life!

To find out more about Jessica's books, go to http://www.jessicahart.co.uk.

Jessica Hart