Helena Fairfax was born in Uganda and came to England as a child. She's grown used to the cold now, and these days she lives in an old Victorian mill town on the edge of the Yorkshire moors.

Her first novel, The Silk Romance, was a contender for the Romantic Novelists’ Association New Writers’ Scheme Award and a runner-up in the Global Ebook Awards, and in 2014 Helena was shortlisted for the Exeter Novel Prize.

When not writing, Helena loves walking the moors with her dog, enjoying the changing seasons and dreaming up her heroes and her happy endings.