Elsa Holland
author : Elsa HollandElsa Holland writes lush, sensual stories set in Victorian England. They skirt the edge of gothic eroticism and dark romanticism giving them a rich, moody feel (which has nothing to do with the bowl of chocolates at the side of her keyboard or the pictures she chooses for her desktop). Her heroines walk fearlessly through the dark and her heroes are exactly the kind of men you want to find there.\n.\nShe is strongly influenced by fairy-tales... but how they used to be told, the ones that held real darkness to overcome and where the rewards for undertaking the journey were often not what you expected.\n.\nThe first series in the Velvet Basement Series holds elements of Sleeping Beauty (The Veiled Heart), Cinderella (The Bound Heart), \u0026amp; Beauty and The Beast (The Painted Heart). They are not retellings, they hold the deeper pattern that sits in these stories we grew up with.\n.\nElsa lives with her Viking-stock husband and her follow-you-everywhere dog, in semi-tropical Queensland, Australia
author : Elsa HollandElsa Holland writes lush, sensual stories set in Victorian England. They skirt the edge of gothic eroticism and dark romanticism giving them a rich, moody feel (which has nothing to do with the bowl of chocolates at the side of her keyboard or the pictures she chooses for her desktop). Her heroines walk fearlessly through the dark and her heroes are exactly the kind of men you want to find there.\n.\nShe is strongly influenced by fairy-tales... but how they used to be told, the ones that held real darkness to overcome and where the rewards for undertaking the journey were often not what you expected.\n.\nThe first series in the Velvet Basement Series holds elements of Sleeping Beauty (The Veiled Heart), Cinderella (The Bound Heart), \u0026amp; Beauty and The Beast (The Painted Heart). They are not retellings, they hold the deeper pattern that sits in these stories we grew up with.\n.\nElsa lives with her Viking-stock husband and her follow-you-everywhere dog, in semi-tropical Queensland, Australia