Summer Prescott is a USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of cozy mysteries, thrillers, and romance. As owner of Summer Prescott Books Publishing, she is responsible for a combined catalog of over nearly five hundred books, including those written by Patti Benning, Gretchen Allen, and Thea Cambert. A lover of travel and a doting mother to four grown children, she lives in Champaign, Illinois, with her poodles, Elvis and Chavvy.