Maureen Lee was born in Bootle, England, UK, near Liverpool during World War II. She attended Commercial College and became a shorthand typist. She married Richard, and they have three sons, now adults. They currently live in Colchester, Essex.
She published over one hundred and fifty short-stories, before publishing her first novel, Lila, in 1983. Since 1994 she has continued to publish dramatic historical sagas mainly set in her home city of Liverpool – she is working on her 22nd novel this year. In 2000, her novel Dancing in the Dark won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists’ Association.
