Beverley Oakley, an Australian author who grew up in the African mountain kingdom of Lesotho, emigrated to South Australia when she was young, and married a Norwegian bush pilot she met while managing a safari lodge in Botswana's Okavango Delta.Beverley writes historical romance laced with mystery, scandal and intrigue. She lives north of Melbourne, overlooking a fabulous Gothic lunatic asylum, with the same gorgeous Norwegian husband, two daughters and a rambunctious Rhodesian Ridgeback.