Beyond The Ordinary! Our Story!

Our introduction to becoming authors

The story of a writer is often a solitary one, a dance between a blank page and the chaotic storm of imagination. For me, Elizabeth Biancucci and my husband Steve Biancucci, the dance began in the hush of sleepless nights during Covid-19, a whispered idea that took root and grew into the tangled, high-stakes worlds of romantic thrillers and suspense. Our minds are a place of locked doors and secrets, where love is forged in the crucible of danger. We live for the moments of breathless anticipation, the sharp intake of a character’s breath before a life-altering choice.

While my heart is always drawn to pure romance—the kind that makes your spirit soar—I've always been captivated by the thrill of the chase and the tension of a ticking clock. My stories explore the idea that the safest places can harbour the most dangerous truths, and that the line between desire and dread is exquisitely thin. I believe that love is an act of courage, that a happy ending is earned, and that the greatest romances are often those that force us to confront our deepest fears. The scent of rain on a dark city street, the cold air in a high-rise office, the quiet rustle of leaves in a forest—these are the backdrops to my stories of passion and perseverance. I build worlds where love can be a weapon, a shield, and a promise, all at once.

My husband's journey began in a different kind of quiet. Not the tense, breathless silence of a looming threat, but the profound stillness of history. My husband, Steve Biancucci, found his muse in the musty smell of ancient libraries and the weight of forgotten texts. His worlds are not defined by modern technology or fast-paced chases, but by the echoes of a past long gone, by the slow burn of intellectual curiosity. He delves into the minutiae of historical fact, the rise and fall of empires, and the secrets held in dusty archives. For him, a love story is a mystery to be unravelled, a slow reveal of two souls destined to meet across centuries.

He crafts a world where a quiet pursuit of knowledge leads to a thrilling race against time, and where a book holds not just a story, but the key to a powerful secret. The romance is built on shared intellect, on the quiet understanding between two people who speak the language of history and ideas. The thrill is not in a physical chase but in the slow, agonising realisation that what was once written in ink could change the world forever. His heroes are brilliant minds, and his heroines are women of sharp intellect and courage.

He believes that every historical fact is a thread, and when woven together, they can create a breathtaking tapestry of a bygone era. His stories are about the enduring nature of love and truth, about the way the past informs the present. The clinking of a goblet in a medieval feast hall, the rustle of a page in a dimly lit study, the crackle of a fire on a cold night—these are the sounds of his world. He, too, believed his journey was his alone. He was the scholar in his tower, content in the company of historical figures and the ghosts of old legends.

Our two worlds, so disparate yet so deeply connected, collided not in the pages of a book, but in the quiet reality of our lives. My worlds were filled with the sleek lines of modern architecture and the roar of fast cars, while his were populated by cobblestone streets and the clatter of horse-drawn carriages. We spoke different languages of the heart—mine in the urgent dialect of romantic suspense, his in the measured, eloquent prose of historical romance.

We had created our own universes, rich and complete, and we believed that was all there was to it. But then came an idea, a mind challenge over coffee one evening. “What if we wrote a story together?” was a simple question that seemed to contain an impossible task. How could we reconcile the modern, high-octane tension of my work with the rich, historical tapestry of his? The answer, as we would soon discover, was in the collision itself. Me being Scottish and Steve being Italian led to several collisions of the minds.  Of which we are both used to! We are both strong-willed, but we always resolve in the end.

Our co-authored journey began with a question: What happens when romantic suspense is given a historical setting? We learned to speak a new language, one of compromise and collaboration. I would sketch out a scene, a high-stakes standoff between a hero and heroine, and he would come in and fill it with the authentic details of the era—the fashion, the social mores, the political climate. He would write a slow-building mystery, and I would inject the pulse-pounding, heart-stopping moment that turned it from an intellectual puzzle into a life-or-death battle for love.

The experience of co-writing was like a duet. There were moments of harmony and moments of beautiful dissonance. I would argue for a quick, passionate embrace, and he would insist that such an act would be scandalous for the period, forcing us to find a more subtle, powerful way to convey the same emotion. He would propose a historical plot twist, and I would find a way to make it a deeply personal, emotionally resonant one for our characters. We realised that our strengths were not simply different, but complementary. We were not two authors writing a single story; we were two halves of a whole, creating something that neither of us could have crafted on our own.

Now, we sit across from each other, the weight of our shared and individual journeys behind us. My mind still races with the pulse of modern suspense, and he still finds solace in the echoes of the past. But in the space between our desks, something new has been born. It is the understanding that a good story is not defined by its genre, its setting, or its pace, but by the passion and truth with which it is told.

We invite you to step into our worlds—to get lost in the tension and the promise of romance, to uncover the secrets of a bygone era, and to discover the magic that happens when two different paths lead to a single, beautiful destination.

We hope you enjoy reading our stories and that you look forward to all of our new releases in the years to come.

Elizabeth Biancucci & Steve Biancucci