Multi-award winning author, Helene Young, lives aboard a catamaran moored near the Great Barrier Reef in the Coral Sea. She shares her sailing adventures with her husband and their dog, Zeus. Her work as a senior captain with a major regional airline takes her all over Australia and she draws inspiration for her stories from the communities she visits. Her latest best selling novel, HALF MOON BAY, was released in May 2013 and chosen as the Get Reading Australia Book of the Month for June.In 2011 and 2012 she won the Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) Romantic Book of the Year Award. She was also voted most popular romantic suspense author by the Romance Readers of Australia (ARRA) in 2010 and 2011, and shortlisted for the same award in 2012. Her third book, Burning Lies, is short listed for the Daphne du Maurier Award Mystery/Suspense in 2013.Helene is also the custodian of several thousand bees and, in what spare time she has left, loves to read and travel.