Deborah Challinor was born in the Waikato, New Zealand, and currently lives in NSW, Australia, where she is working on four novels set in 1830s Sydney. She has a Ph.D. in history, has written feature articles and an opinion column for a daily New Zealand newspaper, and taught researching and writing historical fiction at university level. All her novels have been bestsellers, six reaching number one in New Zealand. Deborah has also written about the Vietnam war. As well as in New Zealand, her print books are sold in Australia, the UK, Germany, Russia and Czechoslovakia.
