Cassie Lockharte is the shared pen name of bestselling romance authors Cassie Alexander and Kara Lockharte. Little did Kara and Cassie know when they met at a writing workshop in 2007 they would become the paranormal powerhouse of Cassie Lockharte, combining Kara’s fun and fast-paced plotting with Cassie’s angsty heroes and steam, to bring readers a hearty and heart-felt brew of hot men, strong women, and astoundingly dire yet somehow still exceedingly sexy situations for them to escape from.On her own, Cassie’s a nurse by day and writer by night, living in the Bay Area with her husband, two cats, inside a massive succulent garden.