Sandra Worth is the author of six historical novels on the Wars of the Roses chronicling the demise of the Plantagenets and rise of the Tudors, three with the Penguin Publishing Group U.S.A. She is internationally published and her books have won numerous awards. After a ten-year absence filled initially with research trips to Greece and Turkey and later with grave illness in the family, she is back with Empress of Constantinople, her seventh book and first foray into the Europe-Ottoman conflict. Sandra holds an honors B.A. in Political Science and Economics from the University of Toronto that has nothing to do with her historical fiction work. After a brief stint in finance, she embraced her childhood passion of writing with renewed dedication, because storytelling is so much more fun. WWW.SANDRAWORTHAUTHOR.COM