Brief Author Bio:

Ilzebeth von Whatterdoodle resides in Castle Whatterdoodle somewhere windswept and possessing a very Gothic beauty. She was raised in a Gypsy caravan and was later traded to a Russian baron in exchange for shelter from the bitter cold. While being kept as his servant, Ilzebeth was courted by a Scottish mercenary who later kidnapped her away from the barren Russian landscape and taught her the ways of passion and love in the equally barren Highlands.

After three years of sinful bliss, her lover was killed in a duel with a landbaron from Louisiana. Vowing never to love again and having nowhere else to go, Ilzebeth made her way to the United States where she found herself in dire straights. Finally resorting to prostitution in the deep South, she captured the heart of the very same Louisiana landbaron who had killed her love years previously. She initially rebuked his ungentlemanly advances, but slowly, he showed her the depth of his feelings for her.

After one night of hot, stormy passion, her landbaron's previous lover, a Cajun witch, returned to Louisiana to reclaim his heart through dark magickal means! Thinking her lover left her, Ilzebeth retreated to the castle he built for her to write novels of what might have been, had her story ended happily...