I’m Lisa Manterfield and I love telling stories. I’m a curious cat and I’m fascinated by human behavior and what makes people tick. I love fish-out-of-water stories of ordinary people in extraordinary situations, especially if those situations delve into the unexplained. I love digging up nuggets of history—not the vast sweeping stories of events that changed the world, but the personal stories of people making their way through life while history happened around them. Like many of my characters, I grew up in the north of England. Although my hometown of Sheffield is a big city, I fell head-over-heels in love with the surrounding countryside and spent most of my early years outdoors. In school, I became my county’s orienteering champion, which means I was a whizz at navigating with a map and compass, and thrashing my way through mud and brambles. These days, you’re more likely to find me riding my bike at the beach or running (slowly) the trails near my home in California. I’ve always loved adventure. My first expedition happened when I was two years old and I escaped through a gap in the fence around my family’s house. Ever since, I’ve loved exploring, whether that means heading into the woods for a hike, traveling to new countries, learning a new skill, or escaping into a great book. Some of my favorite adventures include hiking the Inca Trail in Peru, climbing a via ferrata in Italy, feeding a rhinoceros at the zoo, seeing elephants in the wild, performing in a play, teaching myself to play the bagpipes, learning to cook Indian food, canoeing down a river, and bicycling around Ireland. Despite my love of adventure, most days you’ll find me in slippers, writing. In my house, I am the fixer of all things broken and guardian of the bathtub spiders. I’m lucky enough to share my home with my lovely husband, and Felicity, my seriously over-indulged (and very curious) cat.

Katie Fitzgerald is the author of Library Lovebirds, an ebook collection of bookish romances, All Year with Anthony, a stand-alone short story, and a novel in flash, The Bennetts Bloom. Her short stories and flash fiction appear online at Havok Publishing, Syncopation Literary Journal, Little Free Lit Mag, Spark Flash Fiction and Micromance Magazine. She is a 2024 Sparkie Award recipient for Best Romantic Suspense, a nominee for the Pushcart Prize, and a finalist in three categories of the 2025 Cupid Prize. A graduate of Vassar College and a trained librarian, Katie resides in Maryland with her husband and five kids. Katie's work also appears in the following anthologies: ✿ Wither and Bloom ✿ Of Ink & Paper ✿ Crowns: A Heartbooks Anthology ✿ A Winter Promise: A Dragon Soul Press Anthology ✿ Summer Sweethearts: A Contemporary Romance Collection ✿ Tails, Scales, & Tiaras ✿ Another Chance to Get It Right: A New Year's Eve Anthology ✿ Written Tales Chapbook XV: Echoes of Ink ✿ 12 Days of Book-Club-Mas ✿ The Dragon Bone Journal: 2025 Issue ✿ Recipes for Romance: A Sweet Valentine's Day Anthology ✿ I Love You Unconventionally

Cate Collins is a mentor, counselor and storyteller. THE POWERHOUSE IN YOU is her first book. "At the heart of why I wrote this book," Cate says, "I wanted to provide a framework or guide if you will to remind leaders the power of whom they really are and how to support, nudge and provide a call too action on how to invest in their own well-being on a consistent basis. The powerful and relatable stories will help you explore how you get in your own way from your limiting beliefs, remind you what works, what doesn’t and how to customizes your resiliency plan of action to show up to be the best version of yourself. "As a recovered burned out leader, I wanted to unite all leaders who want to be more resilient, courageous and confident, so they make better decisions, own their power and experience more optimum health. It can get lonely at the top and overwhelm and the constant hustle has become normal resulting in more burned out leaders. "My book was inspired by the thousands of leaders that I have had the honour to work with. "Remember. You are a powerhouse."