Roni Kennedy is part storyteller, part chaos engine, and occasional menace to computer software everywhere. She writes fantasy romance for readers who like their heroes morally questionable, their slow burns agonizing, and their villains suspiciously attractive. When she isn't building worlds, she's rebuilding computers, browsing for comics, or losing herself in good sci-fi, because apparently one fictional universe is never enough. Off the page, she's a self-certified plant rescuer, devoted nap enthusiast, and firmly convinced that anything covered in cinnamon and sugar is its own kind of magic. She spends her free time gaming with her family and methodically destroying them at UNO, without remorse. The Heir of Elderath is her debut novel. She has been telling these characters' stories in her head for years and is thrilled, and slightly terrified, to finally share them.