Nicole A. Schroeder is a storyteller at heart. Her love of words has stood fast through heaps of notebooks; countless sleepless nights spent reading as a child; hours perfecting sentences in various newsrooms in her home state of Missouri; three months surrounding herself with books as a publishing intern in London, England; and weekends sacrificed to penning her own works in the midst of it all. If she’s not at her writing desk, you’ll likely find her in the saddle or spending time with her family: her parents, her two younger brothers, and her younger sister, all of whom have been her best friends and biggest supporters since she first learned to hold a pencil.