Brandi Elise Szeker has had a million stories in her head since she was a little girl, convincing her baby sister that there were killer clowns in the trees that came out after dark.

She has four rescue dogs — Louis, Cali, Stella, and Nova — and you can find them sprinkled throughout the series so that her love for them will live on forever.

Some days, she lies awake at night wondering if she writes the most beautiful love stories, maybe one will find her too. Texas is where she currently resides with her little one-year-old princess, but one day, she’ll be deep in the mountains, under the stars, writing a thousand more books that will both break your heart and give you life.