Mindy Hayes is the youngest of six children and grew up in San Diego, California. After graduating from Brigham Young University-Idaho, she discovered her passion for reading and writing. Mindy lives in Utah with her husband and beautiful baby girl. She is the author of If We Disappear Here, Stain, the Faylinn novels, the Willowhaven series, and The Day That Saved Us. Mindy is also the coauthor of The Archer and His Rosebud, the Paper Planes series, the Backroads Duet, and the Seaside Pointe series which was cowritten with Michele G. Miller as Mindy Michele.