After spending her early years in Lesotho, Beverley Eikli emigrated to Adelaide, Australia, with her family but was lured back to Africa after reading the diaries of her grandfather, Gerald Nettelton. She found work as a safari camp manager and there she met a bush pilot whom she married after a whirlwind romance. Charting Eivind's aviation career has taken them around the globe for the past 15 years. Beverley worked as an airborne geophysical survey operator in Namibia, Greenland, French Guyana and Sweden. In between jobs in Canada, Japan and Solomon Islands she was a journalist and editor on newspapers and magazines. Writing historical novels started as a childhood passion. It became a recreational necessity when she worked on long contracts as the only female on survey crews of ten or twelve in often remote locations. Beverley now lives in Gisborne, a small town near Melbourne, with Eivind, their two daughters, Sophie, 7 and Dagny (Lillie), 3 and their Rhodesian Ridgeback, Homer.