Growing up in the Midwest on a steady diet of fairy tales, Where the Wild Things Are, and Alice in Wonderland, I destined myself to stink at anything except teaching or writing books. I moved to South Carolina years ago to study nineteenth-century British lit at the University of South Carolina. Since then, I’ve written academic articles about Wuthering Heights, British children’s lit, and a peer-reviewed article dealing with sex and death imagery in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. After finishing my PhD, I began writing fiction.

 My first book, Ripper (Flux 2012), is a young adult paranormal Gothic novel about the Jack the Ripper murders in Victorian London. Renegade and Resurrection (Flux 2013 and 2014) completed the trilogy. My latest book, The Victoria Project, is a women’s fiction travel romance forthcoming with Canary Street Press in 2025.

 I live in a quirky old house in Indianapolis with my three children. I like yoga, Mr. Darcy, and chocolate.