Yvonne Lindsay is a New Zealand author of contemporary romance, born to Dutch immigrant parents. A former law-office manager, she made her first sale to Silhouette Desire in 2005 and has since contracted more than forty titles with Harlequin Desire, along with a novella for Tule Publishing. She won the Romance Writers of Australia Emma Darcy Award in 1999 and the Romance Writers of New Zealand Clendon Award in 2004, and took the latter's Koru Award of Excellence in 2015 after several finalist placings.