Eressë

As far back as her college days, Eressë enjoyed writing stories set in historical times or, better yet, fantasy settings. Indeed, her pen name Eressë (e-res-se) is taken from the elvish language J.R.R. Tolkien created for his fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings, an absolute favorite of hers since way back when. A good number of her stories, however, turned into homoerotic romances because many of the male lead characters wound up having more chemistry with each other than with the female leads.

Why Eressë wrote them that way she doesn't know. But in any case, this penchant for M/M fantasy romance became the wellspring of Ylandre, the world in which her seminal piece Sacred Fate and its sequel Hallowed Bond take place.