Paula de Fougerolles has a Ph.D. from the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge, and has taught and published in the field. She has lived and traveled extensively throughout Scotland and Ireland, including a prestigious year-long Thomas J. Watson Fellowship in which she criss-crossed Europe in search of the physical remains of the so-called 'Dark Ages'--research which ultimately led to this award-winning historical fiction series.
