Elyse spent her childhood years in Borneo. She moved to Australia when she was a teenager and was an avid reader of romances. It was her love of historical romance that led her to write My Dark Duke, which was a finalist in the Romance Writers of Australia Emerald Award contest in 2014.

A lawyer by profession, Elyse is a self-confessed compulsive buyer of any books featuring dukes. She also loves reading stories featuring alpha billionaires, undoubtedly because they are the embodiment of modern-day dukes. Elyse spends her free time fantasizing about wickedly handsome heroes and the strong heroines who ultimately tame them. Less