Since childhood, award-winning author Tricia T. LaRochelle has been obsessed with tragic love stories. No beach reads for her. Bring on the grit with a double side of turmoil. She likes to feel the characters' anguish as they fight to overcome obstacles and be together. Coming from an educational background in Marketing, Tricia has spent her life creating and connecting with people, which is precisely what she wants to do with her writing. Growing up in central Vermont, she has seen her share of tragedy but remains a hopeful romantic. She now lives in Virginia, where she continues to foster the possibilities of how love can conquer all. Flickering Heart won a Gold Medal Award in the Readers' Favorite 2023 for Fiction - New Adult, first place in the 2022 Incipere Awards held by Entrada Publishing (Revive receiving an honorable mention), and was a finalist in the 2023 Virginia Romance Writers Holt Medallion contest for Best First Book.