Adrianne Ambrose comes from a family of antique dealers and professional knife sharpeners. She's a native of Cleveland, Ohio (love) and currently resides in the Bay Area (like) with her family (love). When not writing novels about cheerleaders, barbarians or vampires, she's being nominated for video game awards starring dangerous high school girls. Cats have an unnatural fondness for Adrianne (sometimes unrequited) and her pet peeve is people who say wallah instead of voilà. When she isn't writing, she likes to visit Eastern European countries littered with large, crumbling monuments of Lenin or remote island nations dotted with giant heads carved out of stone.