After living in the U.S.A. for nearly eight years, Lilian Darcy is back in her native Australia with her American historian husband and their three young children. More than ever, writing is a treat for her now, looked forward to and luxuriated in like a hot bath after a hard day. She likes to create modern heroes and heroines with good doses of zest and humor in their makeup, and relishes the opportunity that the medical series gives her for dealing with genuine, gripping drama in romance and in daily life. She finds research fascinating, too—everything from attacking learned medical tomes to spending a day in a maternity ward.