Kathryn Ross was born in Zambia to an English father and an Irish mother. She was educated in Ireland and England, where she later worked as a professional beauty therapist before becoming a full-time writer. Most of her childhood was spent in a small village in southern Ireland; she says it was a wonderful place to grow up, surrounded by the spectacular beauty of the Wicklow Mountains and the rugged coastline of the Irish Sea. She feels that living in Ireland first sparked off her desire to write; it was so rich in both scenery and warm characters that it invited her to put pen to paper. Kathryn doesn’t remember a time when she wasn’t scribbling. As a child she wrote adventure stories and a one-act play that won a competition. She became editor of her school magazine, which she said gave her great training for working into the night and meeting deadlines. Happily, ten years later, Harlequin accepted her first book for publication.

Kathryn loves to travel and seek out exotic locations for her books. She feels it helps her writing to be able to set her scenes against backgrounds she has visited. Traveling and meeting people also give her great inspiration. That’s how all her novels start; she gets a spark of excitement from some incident or conversation, and that sets her imagination working. Her characters are always a pastiche of different people she has either met or read about, or would like to meet. She likes being a novelist because she can make things happen—well, most of the time, anyhow. Sometimes her characters take over and do things that surprise even her!

Kathryn can often be found walking her dogs in the Lake District as she thinks about her plots.

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