Callie spent the first three decades of her life in Portland, Oregon before picking up everything and moving to the South for much needed sunshine and a change of pace. When she's not reading or penning novels, she's absorbed in all things supernatural, fantasy, sci-fi and anime. Callie's novel INNOCENT won the Young Adult category for the 2015 Booksellers' Best Award, the 2015 National Excellence in Romance Fiction Award, the 2015 Wisconsin RWA Write Touch Readers' Award, and the YA General category for the 2015 RONE Awards. INNOCENT also went on to final in the Young Adult category of the 2015 Aspen Gold Reader's Choice Awards, the 2015 Book Buyers Best Contest, the 2015 Award of Excellence Contest, the 2015 Maggie Award of Excellence, the 2015 Golden Quill Contest, and the Chatelaine Awards 2014. Callie's debut novel STUDENT BODYGUARD FOR HIRE won the Young Adult Romance category for the 2015 Aspen Gold Reader's Choice Awards. STUDENT BODYGUARD FOR HIRE also went on to final in the 2015 Booksellers' Best Award, the 2015 National Excellence in Romance Fiction Award, the 2015 Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence, the 2014 Dante Rossetti Awards, the 2014 International Digital Awards, and was a Nominee in the 2015 RONE Awards.