D.M. Simmons is an award-winning writer of fiction. While growing up in a small town in the Sierra Nevada's, reading was her favorite pastime, with stories of swoon-worthy relationships being her favorite. From SWEET VALLEY HIGH to Judy Blume's FOREVER, she was excited at an early age by the complications and delights in love. Even now she is fascinated by love of all kinds - new, old, young, lost, unrequited, forbidden, even irrevocable - and appreciates strong female characters who know what they like and aren't afraid to say and go for it! Her debut novel EVOKE is available now (Gestalt Media) and was a Gold Medal winner in the Reader's Favorite International Book Awards in 2019 in the YA-mystery category. Books 2 and 3 in the planned trilogy will be released in 2020.