14 February in Australia) is popular Australian writer of over 75 medical romance novels since 1981.
She obtained an Arts degree with majors in Linguistics, Russian and French.
She worked as a nanny in the French Alps and extensively in theatre, both on stage and as a playwright.
Later, she worked as teacher of French and English, she changed her career to computer programming before marriage with a New Yorker writer.
Now, she and her husband live in New South Wales, Australia with their three sons and their daughter.