Jessica Swift writes all the time, both in her day job as a Marketing Manager and her moonlight job as a writer of historical fiction. The daughter of a feminist historian, she has always been drawn to objects that connect us to the past, be it the Silurian fossils she finds with her children or Victorian household manuals she collects. Although some of her stories are classed as historical romance, they explore themes that have fascinated writers from the Ancient Greeks to modern-day; love, betrayal, jealousy, madness and forgiveness. Her debut on Tales, A Loveless Marriage, was inspired by an idle random thought “What would happen if two perfect strangers marriages because of a bequest in a will?”Jessica lives in England with her husband, two children, one fluffy cat and four quails.