Dianne Emley

Los Angeles Times bestselling author Dianne Emley is a Los Angeles native, growing up in the multicultural Northeast side, where she attended public schools. She earned a B.A. in Philosophy and an MBA, both from UCLA, and has held a variety of day jobs, mostly in business middle management. For years during the early morning before she headed to the office, she wrote fiction. Her first book, Cold Call, a mystery about Iris Thorne, a sexy, single L.A. investment counselor in the "greed is good" late 1980s, was sold at auction to Pocket Books/Simon and Schuster and published in 1993. It was followed by four more in that series.

Dianne was inspired to take her writing in a new direction and began writing about Nan Vining—a haunted and driven h

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