Linda Hurtado Bond is an Emmy-award winning journalist. She works as a television news reporter and anchor in Tampa, Florida. For the past twenty years, she's been reporting on local and national events, as well as writing emotional, human-interest stories on both the best and worst in our society. She’s seen it all, and her unique vantage point provides endless content for her fiction books. Entangled Publishing released Linda's two romantic adventures, Alive at 5 and Cuba Undercover as well as her medical thriller, Flatline. Think James Bond meets Romancing the Stone. Her latest series takes a darker turn, investigative thrillers, starting with All the Broken Girls. All the Missing Girls and The Phantom Pirate of Gasparilla release in late 2024 and early 2025. Linda is also the host of Tampa Bay Reads, an author-related segment that airs on her TV news station highlighting local book influencers, authors, and others in the book community. A breast cancer survivor, Linda took the worst day of her life and turned it into one of life’s best opportunities, now using her platform as a news anchor to support nonprofits like the American Cancer Society and to advocate for others fighting cancer. She has won 13 Emmy awards, numerous Society of Professional Journalist and Associated Press awards, as well as a Florida Bar and an Edward R. Murrow award. This former baton-twirling beauty queen from the deep south, Go Dawgs, now lives in Tampa with her husband. They’ve raised five kids, a surgeon, a nurse, a paramedic, a pilot, and a future psychologist. Fair to say they’ll be taken care of in retirement.