Natasha Oakley is a British writer of contemporary romance, born in Middlesex. She trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and worked as an actor before turning to fiction. Mills & Boon accepted her second submission in December 2003 and published her first novel, For Our Children's Sake, in 2005. She has written for Harlequin Mills & Boon ever since, including The Tycoon's Princess Bride, a 2008 RITA finalist, and Cinderella and the Sheikh. She lives in Bedfordshire and belongs to the Romantic Novelists' Association.