Ellen Chauvet lives in Vancouver, British Columbia and finds the months of rain and gloom particularly conducive to creating in this genre. Ellen’s love for reading and writing developed at an early age and she wrote several short stories and plays which were lost over the years and many moves. In 2003 a friend introduced her to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ellen was fascinated by the idea of good and evil vampires. She started reading every vampire novel she could find loving Anne Rice, Charlaine Harris and Laurell K. Hamilton. When Darkness Falls is the first in a series of books called The Vampire Redemption Series and is adult fiction.