Natalina Reis

International bestselling author, Natalina has always been fascinated by the written word and by the age of eight she was already trying her hand in poetry and short creative essays. Alongside her fascination for words and storytelling, she has always been curious and amazed with the diversity of the human race. Her journey into publication was one of a lifetime and she often acknowledges that she has been in training for this career her whole life.\nNatalina’s experiences and travels have given her the insight that now translates into the worlds she builds within her books. Her contemporary romances show signs of her love for world building where the setting often becomes an important part of the plot. In Desert Jewel, her first published romantic fantasy, Natalina used her familiarity with Africa and Afro-Brazilian mythology to build a world that is part-real, part-fantasy, wholly magical.\nAs a young woman Natalina could not get enough of fairy-tales (even the gruesome ones) and as an adult she continued to feed that love by getting lost in many a fantasy book and movie. Lavender Fields was inspired by that love of magic, fantasy and the constant curiosity of asking herself, “What if?”\nDesert Jewel was a finalist for the Maine Romance Writers 2017 Strut Your Stuff contest in the Science Fiction/Fantasy/Paranormal category and has received many glowing reviews both on Amazon and Goodreads.\nIn March 2017 she was invited to be part of a paranormal/fantasy/sci-fi romance panel during the Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville, Virginia. She had the great honor of sharing the panel with the great Pintip Dunn and Margaret Locke.\nA linguist by profession, Mrs. Reis enjoys using language as an integral part of the plot, infusing even totally fabricated worlds with an aura of believability.\nNatalina was born and raised in Portugal. She moved to the U.S. as an adult after marrying an American sailor. A lifetime learner, she has earned three degrees, speaks five languages, and dreams of learning a non-alphabetical language sometime in the future. She lives in Virginia where she teaches English as a Second Language to elementary school children, a job that challenges her creative and language skills on a daily base.\nNatalina’s dream is to be able to dedicate herself full time to her writing and always be true to her muse. She doesn’t believe you can have too many books or too much coffee. Art and dance make her happy and she is pretty sure she could survive on lobster and bananas alone. When she is not writing or stressing over lesson plans, she shares her life with her husband and two adult sons.\n