A woman like no other Miss Jessica Beresford is headstrong, impetuous and poorly-dowered.

As soon as Dorothy Elbury learned to read she was continually reprimanded for "always having her nose in a book". Years later Dorothy still spent all her free time reading until, one day, finding herself with nothing to read and time hanging heavy on her hands, she started to scribble the first paragraphs of what would eventually become her first of many Mills & Boon romance novels. Dorothy currently lives in Lincolnshire, England, with her husband of over fifty years.