All her life Amanda Hughes has been a Walter Mitty, spending more time in heroic daydreams than the real world. At last she found an outlet writing adventures about audacious women in the 18th Century. Her debut novel, Beyond the Cliffs of Kerry was published in 2002 and her latest historical adventure, The Pride of the King released in 2011. Amanda is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and when she isn't off tilting windmills, she lives and writes in Minneapolis, Minnesota.