Born and raised in the Southeast, award-winning author Patrice Michelle gave up her financial calculator for a keyboard and never looked back. Thanks to an open-minded family who taught her that life isn't as black and white as we're conditioned to believe, she pens her novels with the belief that various shades of gray are a lot more interesting. She's a natural with a point-and-shoot camera, likes to fiddle with graphic design and, to the relief of her family, strums her guitar to an audience of one.

Well, that's the condensed, back-of-the-book bio about me, anyway. :o)

As for becoming a writer...I wasn't one of those kids scribbling stories as soon as I could write, but I was a voracious reader. At the age of fifteen, after devouring hundreds of books, I told my mom, "One day, I want to be the one who writes the kind of books readers think about long after they've closed it." Now, many moons later, I'm happy to finally be doing what I've always dreamed about.