Jane Robotham was born on 1945 in Cairo, Egypt, where her British parents were stationated. She grew up in the New Forest, in the south of England. She obtained a master's degree in applied social studies from Oxford University. Married with three children, she was trained as a social worker. In 1978, her family moved to New Jersey, she pursued her career in psychiatric social work. After moving in 1981 to Washington, D.C., she started writing romances. In 1984, she sold five contemporany romances to Jove in the Second Chance colection. Later she sold her first historical romances to diferent publishing companies under the name of Jane Feather. Now, she is a New York Times bestselling, award–winning writer, with more than ten million copies of her book in print.