Helen Kirkman's love affair with Anglo Saxon and Viking history began as a schoolgirl, standing on the mysterious grassy remains of a hill fort and dreaming of what might have been. She completed a degree in languages and worked at various jobs before beginning to write. / Helen's powerful romances are charged with an emotional intensity fuelled by a love of history and all things romantic.

Born in Cheshire, England, she now lives in New Zealand in a house by the sea.