A reviewer from USA Today wrote that she "found herself devouring [Eloisa"s] book like a dieter with a Hershey bar"; People Magazine raved that "romance writing does not get much better than this." Eloisa wrote her first novel after graduating from Harvard, but alas, it was rejected by every possible publisher. After she got a couple more degrees and a job as a Shakespeare professor, she tried again, with much greater success. Over twenty best-sellers later, she teaches Shakespeare in the English Department at Fordham University in New York City. She"s also the mother of two children and, in a particularly delicious irony for a romance writer, is married to a genuine Italian knight.