Raluca Narita MBA, was born in Romania and grew up in Southern California and West Texas. She currently resides in College Station and loves to travel in her free time. Raluca is the author of The Chronicles of the Underworld Series. She is an aspiring physician, passionate about medicine and the healthcare field. When she was younger, she loved reading retellings of fairytales and stories about Greek gods and goddesses. Opening a book to the first page was like casting off and sailing to an unknown land. As she immersed herself in an imaginative world through reading, she discovered a passion for writing stories. As a full-time MD student at Texas A&M University, Raluca writes fantasy novels as one of her favorite hobbies.

Robert Louis Stevenson (born November 13, 1850, Edinburgh, Scotland—died December 3, 1894, Vailima, Samoa) was a Scottish essayist, poet, and author of fiction and travel books, best known for his novels Treasure Island (1881), Kidnapped (1886), The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), and The Master of Ballantrae (1889). (Britannica)

Bram Stoker (born November 8, 1847, Clontarf, County Dublin, Ireland—died April 20, 1912, London, England) was an Irish writer best known as the author of the Gothic horror tale Dracula (1897).

Charles Dickens is one of the most renowned authors of the 19th century, and he is celebrated for his contributions to English literature. His works are characterized by vivid characters, social critique, and captivating storytelling.

English novelist Jane Austen (1775–1817) wrote about unremarkable people in unremarkable everyday life situations, yet she shaped such material into remarkable works of art. The economy, precision, and wit of her prose style, the shrewd, amused sympathy expressed toward her characters, and the skillfulness of her characterization and storytelling continue to enchant readers. (Britannica)

Leo Tolstoy (born August 28 [September 9, New Style], 1828, Yasnaya Polyana, Tula province, Russian Empire—died November 7 [November 20], 1910, Astapovo, Ryazan province) was a Russian author, a master of realistic fiction and one of the world’s greatest novelists. (Britannica, 2024)

Alexandre Dumas, père (born July 24, 1802, Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne, France—died December 5, 1870, Puys, near Dieppe) was one of the most prolific and most popular French authors of the 19th century. Without ever attaining indisputable literary merit, Dumas succeeded in gaining a great reputation first as a dramatist and then as a historical novelist, especially for such works as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. (Britannica 2024)