Idalita Wright Raso
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Author Idalita Wright Raso is a freelance writer, author, radio air talent, and actress based in Cleveland, Ohio. She has written feature-based stories for the Lake County Gazette in Ohio and has written an editorial/opinion column for Word Up Magazine in Detroit, Michigan. She has also taught a Beginning Novel Writing Series at the Willoughby Senior Center. She has been in stage plays at Karamu House of Cleveland, the Cleveland Metropolitan Theatre, and the Cleveland Playhouse.
She is the author of the Eye of Saturn vampire series: The Daughters of Saturn (2019) and Between Heaven and Saturn (2025), and Saturn Returns (which will be published in 2026). She is also a current member of the Horror Writers Association and the Great Lakes Fiction Writers. |
The Daughters of Saturn Book 1 (Eye of Saturn)
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Horror
BLOOD IS THE SEAT OF THE SOUL... Set in medieval Spain, Felipe de Hayos, the son of a wealthy statesman is forced by his parents to marry a mysterious Moorish woman named, Lilith Al-Salameh. But Lilith is hiding a drk secret, she is actually Saturn's Immortal High Priestess and has to transform Felipe into an immortal, like herself. However, Lilith’s plans are dashed when a family friend and her daughter, Zaybeth Castile come to live at the de Hayos estate. It is love at first sight for Felipe and Zaybeth. Learning of her husband’s betrayal, Lilith plots the lover’s destruction. She calls upon the Daughters of Saturn to aid her in performing a forbidden ritual, opening the Eye of Saturn—cursing Felipe into a vampire and Zaybeth into the only one who can kill him. |
Eye of Saturn: Between Heaven and Saturn Book Two
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Horror/Historical Horror
Between Heaven and Saturn, Book Two in the Eye of Saturn series is a genre-defying fusion of historical fiction, dark fantasy, and cosmic horror. At its center is Felipe de Hayos—vampire, imposter prince, and tragic antihero—Trapped in a 550-year curse inflicted by Saturn’s priestess, his own wife. Disguised as Vlad Dracula III, Felipe commits unspeakable atrocities—impaling thousands, torching cities, and manipulating monarchs—to protect Wallachia from the Turkish Ottoman Empire. Meanwhile, the clock is ticking for Felipe to break his vampire’s curse and rescue his beloved Zaybeth from the Netherworld. Felipe’s epic journey takes him from the fierce battlefields of the Ottoman Empire to the New World, where he discovers a darkness even more evil than his curse. Felipe is where the cursed live…Between Heaven and Saturn. |