Erica Dakin

I was born in the Netherlands and lived there until age 25, when I moved to Great Britain to be with my boyfriend. I married him in 2006 and have never regretted the move or the marriage.

I have always been an anglophile and started learning English when I was ten. I began writing short stories in English when I was about fifteen, and since my first love in books has always been Fantasy, my dream was to once write my very own epic fantasy novel.

When I got to about age thirty, I realised that whatever I wrote always ended up being heavily romantic, probably because my second love in books is for all things Romance. The short stories kept coming, until I finally got to the point where a short story just wasn't long enough.

My books are as much fantasy as they are romance, and the content is most definitely adult, mainly because I've always thought that there is little point in romance if there is no sex involved. I also feel that it is very important for your characters to be believable - few things used to annoy me more in eighties' romance novels than heroines suddenly going from hate to love for the hero, simply because they reached chapter seven.

I have so far written one fantasy/romance trilogy, the Theft and Sorcery series. The Ritual was published in January 2013, The Conspiracy in May 2013 and The Coup in May 2015. I hope that people will enjoy them, because I can't be the only one who likes the combination of fantasy and romance.