Carolyn Crane

Carolyn Crane is an American author of the Disillusionists urban fantasy trilogy, as well as the Associates romantic suspense series. Her novel Off the Edge won a Romance Writers of America RITA Award in 2014 for Best Romantic Suspense, making this the first self-published novel to win a RITA.

Biography Crane grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and Milwaukee, attending Arrowhead High School in Wisconsin. She studied English literature and earned her BA from the University of Minnesota in 1991 and currently lives in Minneapolis with her husband and two cats.

Crane cites reading Diana Gabaldon's Outlander, Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake series, and Kelley Armstrong's Bitten in reinspiring her to write after getting her degree. 3. 3.5

Code of Shadows Series 0.5. in the anthology Fire & Frost and Novellas & Stories 1.

The Associates Series

Novellas/Short Stories in the Mammoth Book of Ghost Romance

Audio

Awards and reception Critical reception to Crane's work has been positive, with Romantic Times giving the first two books in the Disillusionist Trilogy four and a half stars.

2014 - Romance Writers of America RITA Award, Romantic Suspense – Off the Edge