Christina Hoag is the author of novels Girl on the Brink, named Suspense magazine's Best of YA, and Skin of Tattoos, a Silver Falchion Award finalist, Law of the Jungle and The Blood Room, an Audible bestseller. Her short stories and essays have been published in numerous literary reviews, including Toasted Cheese, Lunch Ticket, Other Side of Hope and Shooter, and have won a number of awards. Christina is a former journalist for the Miami Herald and foreign correspondent in Latin America where she reported for Time, Business Week, Sunday Times of London, and The New York Times, among others.