Frances Cowie can’t hush the romantic dreams invading her thoughts, so she writes about them instead.

For Frances, happy ever after is the only way to go, but she likes a certain arrogance from her heroes and a touch of angst from her heroines – just to keep things interesting.

She lives with her husband in New Zealand’s Southern Lakes district, and is known to have a passion for cupcakes and Whittaker’s coconut chocolate.