Karen Brough is an Australian wife, mother, writer, and former primary school teacher. She is the author of the Be Held by Him series and is now dipping her toe into the world of children's fiction.Karen has always had a passion for writing and for encouraging others and cannot remember a time without this gift. Her blog has been read and enjoyed both domestically and internationally.She loves nothing better than to spend time with her husband and three children. In warmer months, you'll often find her body boarding and making sandcastles at the beach; or lying by the pool doing crosswords and creating "healthy" gelato for anyone who might drop by. In cooler weather, she loves jigsaws, rom coms, bubble baths and baking anything warm, comforting and delicious-often hiding vegetables in sweet muffin recipes, much to her children's disgust. (Secretly they love it though.

) She loves the slower, unhurried pace of life and following this past health-challenge season, desires God's peace above all else. She loves to laugh, cry and love with her whole heart and wants to leave this earth a whole lot better than she came into it.