Elisabeth Staab once said she never wanted to read romance again and absolutely did not want to be a writer. She has since learned a thing or two about the universe's sense of humor when it comes to emphatic declarations. Now a passionate consumer of anything with a happy ending and a wacky creator gritty worlds, f-bombs, and sexy times, she squeezes all that reading and writing stuff in-between raising three kids and one angry cat. Sometimes she misses her sanity, but it's okay cuz she's got coffee. When she's not reading or parenting she goes strange places in the name of research. She once ate dinner in jail and the food was delicious.