Lombard, Emma: - Emma Lombard was born in Pontefract in the UK. She grew up in Africa-calling Zimbabwe and South Africa home for a few years-before finally settling in Brisbane Australia, and raising four boys. Before she started writing historical fiction, she was a freelance editor in the corporate world, which was definitely not half as exciting as writing rollicking romantic adventures. Her characters are fearless seafarers, even though in real life Emma gets disastrously sea sick.