Elizabeth HoytBiography:

Elizabeth Hoyt was born in New Orleans, where her mother’s family has lived for generations, but she was raised in the frigid winters of St. Paul, Minnesota. Growing up, her family traveled extensively in Britain, spending a summer in St. Andrews, Scotland, and a year in Oxford. She earned a bachelor of arts degree in anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Wisconsin was also where she met her archaeologist husband--on a dig in a cornfield. Continuing the cornfield theme, Elizabeth and her husband live in central Illinois with their two children and three dogs. She is an avid gardener with over 26 varieties of daylilies in her multiple gardens and more hostas than any one person can count. The Hoyt family enjoys taking family vacations that invariably end up at an archaeological site.

Elizabeth loves to hear from her readers. You may e-mail her at: elizabeth@elizabethhoyt.com  or mail her at: PO Box 17134, Urbana, Illinois 61803. Please visit her website at www.elizabethhoyt.com  for contests, book excerpts, and author updates.

Letter To Readers:

Gentle Reader,

To Taste Temptation is the first book in my new four-book series, The Legend of the Four Soldiers. The books will be linked by four friends, survivors of a regimental massacre in the American Colonies during the French and Indian War. Now, six years after the massacre, these men have evidence that a traitor gave away their position to the French and their Indian allies. The Legend of the Four Soldiers is about these former soldiers search for the traitor, their search for justice, and their search for peace with the past.

The hero of To Taste Temptation is Samuel Hartley, a self-made man from the American Colonies. He’s come to London to secretly hunt the traitor, but to do so he must enlist the help of the elegant widow, Lady Emeline Gordon—who has a few secrets of her own.

As with my previous work I’ve included an original fairy tale in each book of this new series. The fairy tales in To Taste Temptation is about a soldier returning home from war. His name is Iron Heart and he makes a dangerous pact with an evil wizard that nearly costs him his life—and his true love. I hope you enjoy To Taste Temptation!

Yours Very Sincerely,

Elizabeth Hoyt