Author: Flora Church

Emilia Rosa is of Brazilian extraction and lived in different places in Brazil. Her childhood was spent in Rio de Janeiro and her love for the sea comes from that period. She also loves Ancient Egypt. Rosa worked in international trade shows in a multilingual capacity, and as a fashion model in Brazil, Italy, and the US. She has always been a voracious reader, but never thought that passion would steer her to become an author herself. Her favorite authors are Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, Ellis Peters, and Dorothy L. Sayers among many others. Before turning to fiction, she had poetry published, and won a library poetry contest. That made her decide to try to bring a taste of poetry to a novel. And her love of history and knowledge of Rio de Janeiro, decided the timeframe and setting of her first novel, which was taken to the sequel. She is doing research and starting to write the third sequel. Brazil, the country of her family, where she lived many years, figures prominently in her two novels.