Author CM O'Neill writes dramatic, action-packed historical novels. Her plots focus on staying true to historical events, with deep and compelling characters that make you feel like you know them personally when passing their statues on the street or seeing their names in a textbook.

When she is not writing, she can be found nose-deep in biographies, journals, and books about how to sail a seventeenth-century three-master merchant vessel or cook a hippopotamus steak.

Good Hope is her debut novel.