Born in South Africa to traveling parents, Yolande Pienaar attended seven schools in her twelve years of schooling. With an inborn wanderlust, she enjoys exploring places off the beaten track and is an avid supporter of nature conservation. She enjoys writing romance novels almost as much as she enjoys writing in the suspense genre. Having worked as both a public prosecutor and magistrate and still being an admitted attorney, her novels always contain a smattering of law-enforcement. She writes in both the English and Afrikaans languages.