Ellie Harper

Love stories with teeth — some softer than others.

Ellie Harper is a rom-com author, a hopeless romantic, and a woman who has never once been on time because she was "just finishing one more chapter." She lives with her husband, her five-year-old (who has better taste in snacks than plot twists), and two cats — Harry and Charlie — who contribute nothing to the writing process but demand full credit.

She writes love stories about messy, real people falling for each other in charming little towns, and she believes every good romance starts with someone being absolutely insufferable.

But every hopeless romantic has a darker shelf. Under the same name, Ellie also writes dark romance — sharper teeth, higher stakes, and love fought for in blood rather than banter. Her dark novels, beginning with Blood of Oaths, trade the charming little towns for demon underworlds and morally gray characters who would also, for the record, never once arrive on time.

If the rom-coms are the warm kitchen, the dark romance is the locked room at the end of the hall. She'll take you to both — just check the content warnings before you follow her in.