Shannon Greenland, or S. E. Green, is the award winning author of the teen thriller, Killer Instinct, a YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers; the teen horror, Ultimate Sacrifice, a #1 Amazon bestseller; the teen spy series, The Specialists, a National Reader’s Choice recipient; the teen romance, The Summer My Life Began, winner of the Beverly Hills Book Award; and the teen romance, Shadow of a Girl. Shannon grew up in Tennessee where she dreaded all things reading and writing. She didn’t even read her first book for enjoyment until she was twenty-five! When she’s not writing, she works as an adjunct math professor and lives on the coast in Florida with her very grouchy dog.