Samantha lives in Southern California with her husband and two beautiful children. When she's not writing, she reads anything she can get her hands on, enjoys the Food Network Channel, and her guilty pleasure is most reality television. She is fascinated by blogs, has recently conquered her fear of both Facebook and Twitter, and if there was a flood, she would grab her laptop first and her slippers second. She loves to write paranormal romance (mostly because there is nothing paranormal about her life at all!) and she has just contracted the sequel to Spellbound. This is her second YA paranormal romance for Astraea Press, and she has many more in the works. She also has a completed horror novella on submission. She is closer than ever to calling herself a full-time writer and the idea is both frightening and amazing.