Elizabeth St. Michel, the best-selling author of the Duke of Rutland series (of which Lord of the Wilderness is the fourth installment), has received multiple awards for her work, including the prestigious International Book Award. Her first book, The Winds of Fate, was a number-one hit on Amazon's list of best sellers and a quarterfinalist of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Surender the Wind, Elizabeth's second novel, received the Holt Medallion and the Reader's Choice Award and was a finalist for the National RONE Award, which honors literary excellence in romance writing.
