Planes and books are amongst Beverley's great passions. Her earliest memories are of the single-engine Cessna
206 that flew her to medical appointments from the bottom of her garden located
at 10,000 feet in the African mountain kingdom of Lesotho.

So perhaps it wasn't
surprising that she married the handsome Norwegian bush pilot she met while
managing a luxury safari lodge in Botswana's beautiful Okavango Delta several
decades later.

Trading her job as a journalist on a South
Australian metropolitan daily — the safari hostessing had been a sideline
adventure — life was never the same again as she and her husband worked in
aviation across twelve countries and many more towns and cities.

It was here that Beverley's childhood dream
of becoming a writer found its genesis. Arriving in a new town or country can
be lonely, and it was also lonely, at times, being the only female crew member
in Namibia, Greenland, or French Guiana — until she started to create her own
worlds and cast of characters.

With 40 historical romances to her name,
Beverley now divides her time between “Wuthering Heights,” the dog-friendly
South Australian bed and breakfast and farmstay she runs with her two sisters,
and her Melbourne home, where she enjoys her husband's company when he's not
flying the world. She also makes regular trips to Norway, where their two
daughters are studying.

Beverley crafts Africa-set romantic
suspense under her maiden name, B. G. Nettelton, and romance and non-fiction
under her married name, Beverley Eikli, and pen name, Beverley Oakley.