Melanie Milburne

Melanie Milburne is an Australian romance novelist based in Tasmania who has written contemporary category romances for Harlequin Mills & Boon since her first novel appeared in 2003.

She grew up on a small farm on the edge of Sydney, where she rode horses competitively at local gymkhanas. A nursing career was her first plan, but she qualified as a teacher instead, later turning her teaching diploma into a degree and adding a Master's in Education. She read her first Mills & Boon novel at 17 while studying for her final school examinations. After marrying a surgeon she spent time in Scotland while he studied for a higher surgical degree; the family then returned to Australia and settled in Tasmania. She is an ambassador for the Australian Childhood Foundation, and in 2015 she won the HOLT Medallion.

Her first title recorded by Open Library is His Inconvenient Wife, published by Harlequin Mills & Boon in 2003 and in North America by Harlequin in 2004. Further books followed quickly, including The Australian's Marriage Demand, The Blackmail Pregnancy and Italian's Mistress (all 2004) and the medical romance Her Protector in ER (2005). Her output includes medical romances as well as contemporary ones.

For collectors. As with other Mills & Boon authors, her books appear first as numbered paperback originals and are reissued under different imprints. Open Library's dates for His Inconvenient Wife show the UK Mills & Boon edition (2003) preceding the Harlequin edition (2004), so the Mills & Boon printing is the one to look for when seeking a first.