Ellanore Woods has been telling stories for as long as she can remember. As a child, she and her sister spent countless hours creating adventures together, and as soon as she learned to write, those stories found their way onto paper. Today, inspiration still arrives from unexpected places—a favorite song, a memorable conversation, a breathtaking landscape, or even a thirty-second commercial.
Born and raised in Utah, Ellanore is a wife, mother of seven, and grandmother of twelve. She has lived in both Utah and Alaska and enjoys camping, fishing, Dutch oven cooking, genealogy, sewing, knitting, crochet, and just about anything that sparks creativity. She also has a fondness for collecting elephant figurines and proudly shares her home with Simon, a three-foot-tall stuffed snowman who somehow refuses to melt.
Her fiction spans romantic suspense, mysteries, historical fiction, mythology, and time travel, but every story shares a common thread: strong people facing difficult choices with courage, grace, and hope. She is especially drawn to characters who discover that strength isn't something we're born with—it's something we choose.
Ellanore believes stories have the power to teach, heal, and encourage. She writes to quiet the stories that fill her imagination, giving them a place to live beyond her own mind.
Her stories celebrate hope, family, redemption, and faith.
Thallia Laskari came to Olympia Springs to inherit a house. She didn’t expect a murder, a sheriff she can’t stop thinking about, or the unsettling realization that she dreamed of the victim’s death before it happened.
After discovering her boyfriend has been stealing her work and giving it to his lover, thirty-two-year-old journalist and photographer Thallia Blackwood is ready to leave Chicago behind. An unexpected inheritance gives her the perfect excuse.
Her beloved great-grandmother Evalyn has left behind nearly eight million dollars and a beautiful river-stone house in the Utah desert.
There’s just one problem.
Thallia had always believed Evalyn lived near Moab.
Instead, the house sits outside Olympia Springs, an isolated little town that barely seems to exist online. The locals know more about Evalyn than Thallia does, strangers seem to recognize something in her that she doesn’t understand, and everyone has a slightly different answer when she asks why Olympia Springs is so difficult to find.
Then there’s Sheriff Leonidas Argos.
Leon is calm, capable, infuriatingly observant, and far too attractive for a woman who has sworn off complicated men. He also seems to know something about Thallia’s family that he isn’t telling her.
Their attraction is immediate.
Trust will take considerably longer.
Before Thallia even reaches Olympia Springs, she begins having strange dreams. Fragments of fear. Water. Darkness. A death she cannot quite see.
Then she meets the man from those dreams.
Alive.
Hours later, he is murdered.
Thallia has spent her career asking questions people would rather avoid, and walking away from this one isn’t in her nature. But investigating a murder in Olympia Springs means working beside Leon and discovering that this charming desert town has been keeping secrets for generations.
Some are human.
Some are considerably older.
Because the myths Thallia grew up believing were stories never disappeared. The gods adapted. Their descendants survived. Ancient blood still runs through modern families, carrying gifts that have weakened through the centuries but never entirely vanished.
And Thallia has inherited something of her own.
Something connected to death.
As murder after murder draws her deeper into Olympia Springs, Thallia must uncover killers using evidence, instinct, and the investigative skills that made her a successful journalist, while slowly confronting a truth she never imagined.
Her great-grandmother had another life.
Her family has been hiding more than she realized.
And Olympia Springs may have been waiting for Thallia long before she knew it existed.
At her side is Leon, a sheriff with secrets of his own and a family history that reaches straight into Greek mythology. Attraction grows into friendship, friendship into trust, and trust into something neither of them is willing to surrender simply because destiny might have had a hand in bringing them together.
Because fate can arrange a meeting.
Love still has to be chosen.
Myths, Murder & Love is an adult slow-burn romantic mystery filled with murder investigations, small-town secrets, humor, family mysteries, an irresistible sheriff, ancient gods hiding in plain sight, and one journalist who is about to discover that Greek mythology was never mythology at all.
Welcome to Olympia Springs.
**People who are supposed to find it usually do.
Leaving unchanged is another matter.**