Karen Perkins lives in Yorkshire, where she spends her time writing as well as editing and formatting as proprietor of LionheART Publishing House. She has been a keen sailor since childhood, competing nationally and internationally until the day she had both National and European Ladies Champion titles - and a terminally bad back. She has written one novella (Ill Wind) and one full-length novel (Dead Reckoning - long-listed in the Mslexia Novel Competition 2011) in the Valkyrie Series, both of which are number one bestsellers in Sea Adventures on Amazon.co.uk. A further Valkyrie novel, Look Sh...