Northwest while growing up. Her great love of books started with Gail Carson Levine’s books

and grew from there. She was often found, reading on the school bus, before she did her

homework, and late into the night. (Wait, she still does that!) In middle school she determined

that she liked creating her own stories as much as she liked reading them; so she decided she

wanted to become an Author and keeps working on making that dream come true with every

story idea that bounds into her head. She says that stories are just a part of her, and if you ask

her, she often writes more than one book at a time and has a completely different story in her

mind. She loves writing both clean contemporary romance ( as Cassandra Shiels) and romantic suspense as well as Young Adult Speculative fiction.