Veronica Forand has won the Golden Pen Award for Romantic Suspense and the Bookseller's Best in Romantic Suspense. Veronica attended Smith College, the University of Geneva, and Boston College Law School. She’s worked as an attorney, a college professor, a university track and field coach, a United Nations intern, a homeschool mom, a barista, a waitress, and on a town road crew. When not writing, she is a wilderness search and rescue canine handler with her dog Max.