At the seasoned age of five, Caty Rogan wrote her first story—armed with crayons, dramatic flair, and an unshakable belief that the Power Rangers were actually the bad guys. Shockingly, no publishers came calling.

So, she traded crayons for deadlines, earned a journalism degree, and started chasing stories across the globe. She’s lived in Texas, England, Indonesia, South Africa, and Equatorial Guinea—and somewhere along the way, she collected a few investigative journalism awards and a deeply unhealthy reliance on coffee.

These days, Caty writes the kind of spicy romance novels she used to inhale on long-haul flights. She lives for a badass heroine, swoons for a he-falls-first kind of hero, and survives almost entirely on caffeine, cheesy popcorn, and chocolate.

When she’s not neck-deep in fictional drama, she’s wrangling her two boss-girl daughters with the help of her husband—her very own he-falls-first hero—in the Arizona desert.