[2] Bevan was born on 20 July 1911 in Kalgoorlie, Australia, where her father was a mining engineer.
[3] After finishing her high school studies, Bevan worked as a typist while writing stories in her spare time.
Her first published works were detective novels, written under the pseudonym Fiona Murray, in 1965.
[3] From 1969 to 1992 she wrote 25 contemporary romance novels for Mills & Boon, which were published under her own name.
[2] Her books were considered "wholesome", and focused almost exclusively on the hero-heroine relationship.