Misty Hayes is a professional nerd, young adult fantasy author, and almost-retired cop who spent years chasing bad guys before deciding imaginary ones were more fun (because fiction is the only way to get away with murder).

 

After decades of writing reports, she spends any extra free time she can muster crafting high-stakes adventures filled with magic, mayhem, and the occasional supernatural showdown.

 

When she’s not lost in world-building, Misty enjoys defying pizza norms (pineapple and black olives—fight her), embracing the chaos of retirement planning, and keeping one eye out for plot twists—both in books and in life.

 

Her Blood Dagger Series is a multiple award-winning, high-octane young adult paranormal trilogy.

 

Book one, The Outcasts, has earned a Literary Titan Award, an IndieBRAG Medallion, and was the 2018 Solo Medalist Winner of the New Apple Literary Awards for YA Fantasy as well as the 2019 2nd Place Winner of the North Texas Book Festival in YA Fantasy. The sequel, The Watchers, took 2nd Place in the 2020 North Texas Book Festival in Teen Fiction.

Misty’s Ascended Guardians series, a spin-off of The Blood Dagger Trilogy, kicks off with Shield and Shade, available now. Follow Misty for updates on her award-winning series and upcoming adventures.