A fan of Jane Austen since having to study Pride & Prejudice for her English Literature O Level in 1978, Cassandra has been indulging her passion for all things Austen for many years. Having long wanted to be a writer, the two came together in recent years, and she is now publishing her endeavours in the hope that readers will enjoy delving into her stories as much as she enjoyed creating them. A former college lecturer and more recently a PA) she is British born and bred (though she did live in the USA for five years). Cassandra has two grown up children and splits her time between Rafz in Switzerland, where she lives with her husband, and Regency England, where she lives with her characters.