Ames B. Winterbourne is a thirty-something writer who lives in Los Angeles with her high school sweetheart husband and two spoiled kittens. She has a bachelor's degree in Creative Writing from CSUN and has taken courses at UCLA Extension for fiction. When she's not writing, she's either watching The Golden Girls, drinking large quantities of caffeine, reading fantastical romances, or spending time with her family and cats (mostly the cats).