<br>As a child growing up in rural Alabama, Elaina Roberts traveled the world through books. She battled Martians with John Carter, solved mysteries with Nero Wolfe, and sighed over happy endings with the likes of Johanna Lindsey and Barbara Cartland. Then she travelled the world courtesy of a military husband. And though it held significantly fewer Martians or murders, it did bring its own happily ever after.<br><br>As an author, she creates her own stories by bending reality to her will, altering locations, history, and even mythology with unrepentant glee. Vampires and werewolves, space pirates and edgeworlder smugglers, all deserve to have their stories told and to find their happily ever after.<br>