I’m so glad you’ve come to visit. So you want to know a little more about me? I am the daughter of an exiled king, living a life of both luxury and danger. While ensconced in our palace in our adopted land of Romania, we must be ever-vigilant of the dark forces that expunged us from the beautiful and sacred land that was once called Eden.

You can tell I write fiction, right? I wish I could say that I was an airline pilot or a former spy or something exciting, but my life has been pretty ordinary. My mom liked to assure people that I had a nice, happy, stable childhood in her defense of the fact that I kill people for a living. On paper, of course. I was always drawn to the strange and unexplained, and to the dark side of human nature. I devoured Alfred Hitchcock anthologies, as well as the movies. Loved watching Unsolved Mysteries and true crime television. My sometimes warped sense of humor probably came from all those MAD magazines that were always around the house. Don’t even get me started on my Alfred E. Neuman nightmares.

So, yes, I am fascinated by what makes people do evil things, but mostly what I love about what I write is that good triumphs in the end. The bad guy gets his just punishment. We don’t always get that in real life. But I believe in the strength and beauty of our souls and that we can at least triumph over our own demons—our pasts, our nemeses, the hurts we’ve sustained along the way. The people in my books have the baggage and hurts and insecurities we all do. Then I throw them into a really bad situation, test them beyond their limits, and in the end, they find not only love for someone else but for themselves, too. If they can do it, so can you, and you don’t even need to have people trying to kill you to achieve it. So, yay

I’ve lived in southwest Florida my whole life, though I do get away to the North Carolina mountains. I have a wonderful family, fabulous friends, and consider myself blessed beyond reason. I swim, work out, kayak, hike, meditate, read, and spend time with the aforementioned friends and family. I try to find joy in the little things in life and to find the lessons in the hard times. Life is truly what we make it, and I choose to make mine fantastic.

I actually do have another identity. I have written a bunch of books, mostly paranormal romantic suspense, under the name Tina Wainscott. Check out my website at www.tinawainscott.com. Many of those have some paranormal elements and some have suspense, but they’re not as ful