Livia Dare is the pseudonym of award-winning author Sylvia Day. A wife and mother of two from Southern California, she is a former Russian linguist for the U.S. Army Military Intelligence. Her stories have been called “wonderful and passionate” by WNBC.com, “wickedly entertaining” by Booklist, and frequently garner Readers' Choice and Reviewers' Choice accolades. Her work has won the EPPIE, and she has been named a finalist for Romance Writers of America’s prestigious RITA® Award of Excellence multiple times. She is hard at work on her next book.