Jana DeLeon is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author. She grew up in southwest Louisiana among the bayous and gators. Her hometown is in Carlyss, but you probably won't find it on a map. Jana and her brother spent thousands of hours combing the bayous in a flat bottomed aluminum boat, studying alligators, birds, and nutria in their natural habitat. She would like you to know that no animals were injured during these "studies", but they kept the makers of peroxide in business.

Jana spends as much time as she can at the beach, with her husband and dogs.

She has never been at the center of a mysterious or thrilling situation like her heroines, but she's still hopeful.