

In March 2018, I was finally able to publish the long-awaited fourth book to the Guardians of Time Series, called The Shadow. Hidden, Broken and Fearless were published in 2013, 20. I have now been cancer free for seventeen years and have written a new trilogy called The Avena Series.

With only a short time to live, I was given a stem-cell bone marrow transplant using my sister’s stem cells, which saved my life. In 2004, just as The Key was being prepared for printing, I was diagnosed with an aggressive form of bone marrow cancer called Myelofibrosis. My first four novels, Old Magic, The Named, The Dark and The Key, were published by Bloomsbury Publishing in Australia, the UK, and the USA, with translations into more than a dozen foreign languages. With two teenage daughters at the time I fell into writing young adult paranormal and have never looked back. I took several courses and experimented with different styles and genres. It was not until my mid-thirties, while teaching office studies and computers to adults at the Coffs Harbour Education Campus that I began to think seriously about writing. I loved reading from a young age and scoured my school libraries during my younger years, but I never thought I would become a writer.
