Ella Zeiss

Ella Zeiss was born in 1980 in Alma-Ata (now Almaty), Kazakhstan. At the age of ten, she resettled in the Federal Republic of Germany with her parents and grandparents. After graduating from high school, she studied business administration and intrnational management at the University of Münster and the Copenhagen Business School and then worked in business for several years.

The author currently lives with her husband and two daughters near Cologne, where she works as a full-time writer. So far she has published twenty-four novels in various genres. Her grandparents' stories about the prewar period, the forced labour camps and the ensuing years of hardship have accompanied Ella Zeiss all her life, and at last she has turned them into two novels, In the Shadow of the Storm and On the Wings of Hope.

The author also writes romantic and adventure fantasy under the pseudonym Elvira Zeissler, as well as humorous romantic novels under the name of Ellen McCoy. For further information, please visit her website, www.elvirazeissler.de.