Louise Allen is the pseudonym used by Melanie Hilton (born 1949), a British writer of romance novels since 1993.
She started writing in collaboration with a friend under the pen name of Francesca Shaw.
Her novels The Piratical Miss Ravenhurst in 2011 and Scandal’s Virgin in 2014 won the Love Story of the Year by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
[1] Melanie Hilton was born in 1949 in Norfolk, England, United Kingdom.
She lived in Bedfordshire and then moved to Cley on the North Norfolk coast with her husband.