Ilona Fridl was born in Southern California and came to live in Wisconsin in 1971. She took creative writing in college, but never took her dream anywhere until her husband, Mark, bought their first computer in 1995. Then she has sold through the years several short stories and articles to magazines. She landed her first book contract in 2008 for Silver Screen Heroes the first in her series, Dangerous Times. Additional titles in that series include Golden North and Bronze Skies, due out July of 2011. Ilona is a member of the Romance Writers of America and the Wisconsin Regional Writers Association.