Kara Thomas is the author of the YA novels The Darkest Corners, Little Monsters, The Cheerleaders, and That Weekend, as well as the adult novels Out of the Ashes and Lost to Dune Road. Kara's books have been sold in multiple languages and have been nominated for the International Thriller Writers Award. In 2013, she wrote and developed the pilot The Revengers with Rashida Jones and Will McCormack for The CW. She lives on Long Island with her husband, son, and rescue cat, where she spends way too much time on Reddit Unresolved Mysteries trying to solve cold cases.