I was born and educated in Dublin. Following a three-year courtship conducted mostly by letter, I moved to Germany where I lived for twenty-five years before returning to Ireland. I have worked in the Irish and New Zealand public services and in the private sector. Widowed, I have three adult sons and two grandchildren.

I have always been interested in the extended Regency period, a time when the foundations of our modern world were laid. I love writing and am particularly interested in what happens after the first happy end—how life goes on for the protagonists and sometimes catches up with them. My books are set against a background of the offstage, Napoleonic wars and consider in particular the situation of women trapped in a patriarchal society.

I am the author of The Murmur of Masks, Perception & Illusion, A Suggestion of Scandal, The Duke’s Regret, The Potential for Love , A Comfortable Alliance,  Lady Loring’s Dilemma  and The Husband Criteria.