‘For me, every painting and every book is a new adventure, started with a thrill of excitement and anticipation.’ Australian author and artist Rosa Fedele, known for her portrait and figurative work, was born in Sydney and studied at the prestigious Julian Ashton Art School. Rosa fell avidly in love with books at a very young age. Her favourites were those by C.S. Lewis and Tolkien, and later on Raymond E. Feist, David Eddings, Anne McCaffrey and Frank Herbert; in fact, anything with beautiful and spellbinding words and imagery that would allow her to escape into other worlds. Her debut novel The Red Door was the fulfillment of a lifelong dream, to interweave a story with pictures and draw the reader into her own bewitching, and slightly dark-edged, world. The newest in her illustrated suspense series, THE LEGACY OF BEAUREGARDE, was released 10 July 2018.