For her bestselling novels The Girl in Steel-Capped Boots, The Girl in the Hard Hat and The Girl in the Yellow Vest, Loretta Hill drew upon her own outback engineering experiences of larrikins, red dust and steel-capped boots. She is also the author of The Maxwell Sisters and The Grass is Greener, set in the Margaret River wine region, and ebook novellas Operation Valentine and One Little White Lie, which was a no.1 bestseller on iTunes.