Bestselling British author NICOLA CORNICK writes historical romance for Harlequin HQN Books in the US and MIRA Books in the UK. She was born in Yorkshire and studied history at London University and Ruskin College, Oxford. Nicola is also a historian working for the National Trust at the seventeenth-century hunting lodge, Ashdown House. A three-time nominee for the Romance Writers of America RITA award, Nicola has been described by Publisher’s Weekly as ‘a rising star of the Regency genre’. Her website is www.nicolacornick.co.uk