Born in Zambia, raised beneath the vast skies of South Africa, and now living near the coast in Florida, Jill Wallace considers herself joyfully, stubbornly, and incurably bi-continental.

Her life has never followed a straight line. Thank heavens! Straight lines make excellent rulers and dull biographies.

In South Africa, Jill was a contemporary dancer, an international air hostess, and a PR officer. In America, she’s been a movie extra, a realtor, and an award-winning author. Somewhere between airport terminals, stages, open houses, and blank pages, she learned that every life is a story. And every story has a soul waiting to be bared.

Jill writes emotionally rich, cinematic fiction with a South African heartbeat. Her stories travel through war, love, loss, history, friendship, reincarnation, courage, and the impossible choices that reveal who we truly are. She is drawn to characters in dark places, because that is where the light becomes most interesting.

A true WWII love story, first told to Jill when she was only three years old, lived in her imagination for decades before she finally wrote it as a screenplay. The script was twice optioned for film, but when the movie never came, the story refused to fade quietly into the wings. Instead, it became War Serenade, Jill’s acclaimed debut novel. A sweeping tale of forbidden love, music, danger, and the kind of passion that does not ask permission.

Then came Zebra: Friends by Fate. Enemies by Destiny, an Amazon #1 Best Seller inspired by the life, fears, bravery, and complex soul of Jill’s beloved husband, Athol. Through Zebra, Jill explored loyalty, friendship, war, racial division, moral courage, and the impossible choices that shape men.

Her Time Flies series is a delicious collision of psychic mystery, romance, reincarnation, female friendship, soulmates, second chances, and the enduring question: What if love is not finished with us when one lifetime ends?

Whether she is writing historical fiction, women’s fiction, romance, or screenplays, Jill’s work carries the same promise: untamed stories, unexpected turns, unforgettable hearts.

She believes the best stories do more than entertain. They take us somewhere dangerous, tender, funny, and true and bring us back forever changed.