Beverley Oakley (also writing as Beverley Eikli) is an Australian author who grew up in the African mountain kingdom of Lesotho, married a Norwegian bush pilot she met in Botswana's Okavango Delta, and started writing historical romances to amuse herself in the 12 countries she's lived as a 'trailing spouse'. She's also worked as a journalist, an airborne geophysical survey operator, and a teacher of creative writing and English as a Second Language.