<p><strong>NICKI EDWARDS – AUTHOR OF HEARTWARMING AUSTRALIAN ROMANCE</strong></p><p>Nicki is a city girl with a country heart. Growing up on a small family acreage outside Geelong, she spent her formative years riding horses and pretending the neighbour's farm was her own. After spending three years in a regional city in New South Wales in her late 20's, her love of small country towns and rural life was further developed.</p><p>For years she dreamt of escaping to the country with her husband where they would live on land surrounded by horses, dogs, cows and sheep. Unfortunately, she has be be happy living vicariously through the lives of the characters in her books instead.</p><p>A voracious reader, Nicki always wanted to be an author. After returning to university in her 30's to study nursing, she juggled full time study, part time work and kept busy raising four small children. But the dream to write never left.</p><p>Nicki now divides her time between writing and working as a Critical Care nurse in Emergency, Intensive Care and a busy local General Practice. This is where many of her stories and characters are imagined.</p><p>Nicki and her husband Tim reside in Geelong, Australia. They have four adult children, two spoiled border collies and a burmese cat. Life is busy, always fun and definitely exhausting, but Nicki wouldn't change it for anything.</p>
