Sara Craven is the pseudonym used by Anne Ashurst, originally Anne Bushell. She was born in October 1938 in Devon, England. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked as journalist for the Paignton Observer and as teacher. Her first romance novel, The Garden of Dreams, was published in 1975 under the pseudonym of Sara Craven. Since then she has written over 80 romance novels including The Innocent's Surrender, His Untamed Innocent, The Highest Stakes of All, and Wife in the Shadows.