Bronwyn Parry writes gritty romantic suspense, set in Australia's wild places. She lives on 100 acres of beautiful Australian bushland, abounding in wildlife - kangaroos, wallabies, echidnas, sugar gliders, quolls, and koalas - and travels extensively through rural and outback areas of the country. Her first novel, "As Darkness Falls" won the Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award for best romantic suspense manuscript in 2007, and was a finalist in the Romance Writers of Australia Romantic Book of the Year Award for 2008. Her second and third novels, "Dark Country" and "Dead Heat" both won won the Australian Romance Readers Award for Favourite Romantic Suspense novel (in 2010 and 2013), and both were also finalists in the Romance Writers of America RITA Awards and the Daphne du Maurier Awards for romantic suspense. Her fourth novel, Darkening Skies,was an ARRA Awards finalist. Bronwyn's fifth novel, Storm Clouds, will be released in January, 2015.