Carissa Ann Lynch is the USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Bachelorette Party; The Traitors; The Summer She Disappeared; My Sister Is Missing; Without a Trace; Like, Follow, Kill; The One Night Stand; She Lied She Died; Whisper Island; The Secrets of Cedar Farm; and more. She lives in a small town on the border of Indiana and Kentucky with her partner, children, cats, and a growing collection of books. She has a degree in psychology and has always been a little obsessed with the darker areas of the human mind. When she's not writing, she works as a suicide and crisis intervention counselor and coaches a team of emergency service workers on how to assess risk and respond to community mental health crises and disasters.