Christina Brooke worked as a corporate lawyer for a number of years before resigning to write fiction fulltime. She lives in Brisbane with her husband, a Great Dane cross called Monty and two small but very noisy boys. Christina was the first Australian to win the Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award, and was shortlisted by the Australian Romance Readers Association for the Favourite Romance Author Award in 2011. Her novel Heiress in Love was a finalist for the RITA Best Regency Historical Romance award. href='http://www.christina-brooke.com/'>christina-brooke.com