Photographer: Hannah Lynn Photography.

A full-time daydreamer, KALLA HARRIS has wanted to be an author since she was eight years old-although she's now traded her composition notebooks for a computer.

When she's not writing high-stakes young adult books with lots of kissing, you can find her curled up with a good story, perfecting her mac and cheese recipe, or rewatching The Vampire Diaries (Hi, Damon!). Kalla resides in the Upstate of South Carolina with her husband.