Bestselling author Rita Herron has written over sixty romance novels and loves penning dark romantic suspense tales, especially those set in small Southern towns. She earned a RT Book Reviews Career Achievement Award for her work in Series Romantic Suspense, and has received rave reviews for the Slaughter Creek novels Her Dying Breath and Dying to Tell. A native of Milledgeville, Georgia, and a proud mother and grandmother, she lives just outside of Atlanta.