Maggi travelled with her engineer husband, Robin, living and working on five continents. During their wanderings she learned to swim, scuba dive, fly, and gained a science degree from the University of Toronto. After being rescue by helicopter from the Coral Sea when their sailboat was sunk in cyclone Justin they returned to Vancouver Island, Canada where they started farming-one more of their adventures. Now retired they live by a river in Nova Scotia where Robin keeps his current sailboat and Maggi grows organic food and lavender, and walks their latest pit bull; saving writing for the long winter months.