Toki lived in the USA for about nine years as a young girl. She moved to India with her father, who was a career diplomat, and stayed there for about two years. She then came to the UK to finish her A levels and has lived there since then. Toki married and has two children, both girls. She has written other books before, notably Cost of Freedom, which talks about the last world war in the Far East, as well as the duties of the Kamikaze pilots. Currently, she is retired and devotes her time to continue writing books.