Karina Halle is a former travel writer and music journalist and The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling author of The Pact, Love, in English, The Artists Trilogy, Dirty Angels and over 20 other romance novels. Halle is both self-published and published by Simon & Schuster and Hachette in North America and in the UK. She has also made Smashwords Self-Published Bestsellers List 2016 with her title Heat Wave.