Sydney Croft is the alter-ego of Larissa Ione and Stephanie Tyler, who came together to blend their very different writing interests into adventurous tales of erotic paranormal fiction. Though they love to write together as Sydney Croft, they also write individually. Larissa Ione currently lives a nomadic lifestyle with a menagerie of pets, her young son, and her U.S. Coast Guard husband. An Air Force veteran, she has been a meteorologist, an EMT, and a professional dog trainer, often all at the same time - yet she never gave up on her dream of writing fiction. very mobile military career. In addition to the Sydney Croft books, she writes steamy contemporary romance for Red Sage, emotional romance for Samhain, and sexy, dark paranormal romance for Grand Central Publishing. The first of her Demonica series, PLEASURE UNBOUND, will be available in July.Stephanie Tyler has long since given up trying to control her characters, especially the Navy SEAL alpha males, and today she writes military romance for both Harlequin Blaze and Bantam Dell. Her romantic suspense SEAL trilogy, beginning with HARD TO HOLD, has a tentative release date of early 2009.