Nikki worked for many years as a financial journalist. She now writes fiction from a small village near Amersham. Her first novel, On Wilder Seas, was shortlisted for the Historical Novel Society’s New Novel Award and selected for the Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation’s #AdventureSociety book club. Her second novel, Lilith, inspired by the myth of Adam’s first wife in the Garden of Eden, was published in October 2023.