Lauren Smith is an Oklahoma attorney by day and USA Today bestselling author by night who pens adventurous and edgy romance stories. She has won multiple awards for her work, including the New England Readers' Choice Award and the Greater Detroit Booksellers' Best Award, and was an Amazon.com Breakthrough Novel Award quarter-finalist and a semi-finalist for the Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Award. She was a 2018 RITA finalist in the Romance Writers of America Contest.