Mikala wakes up every morning to the sound of crashing surf and has her first coffee of the day on the verandah looking over the wide Pacific Ocean.

It’s a double edged blessing, she says. “I have to drag myself away to do anything at all – like work. I’m a Management Consultant and I don’t think Ricky (my beautiful Border Collie) fully understands the economic necessity of me working to keep him in the life he’s become accustomed to (typical male). He just wants me to run with him along the beach all day chasing those pesky sea gulls.

He’s good company though and, if there are shape shifters in the world, I think I’d like him to be one – loyal, trustworthy, obedient and protective.”

A voracious reader Mikala has been writing in one form or another since she was little. “I’m so lucky that I’ve found a way of sharing my passion for spicy romance and the more fantastical realms that hover just beyond our grasp.”