Jessie Mihalik

Jessie Mihalik is an American author and former software engineer who writes science fiction romance centered on space opera settings and strong female protagonists. Her Consortium Rebellion series, beginning with Polaris Rising, follows a runaway princess pulled into interstellar intrigue, while her Rogue Queen sequence opens with The Queen's Gambit, in which a queen must win a war while falling for her adversary. Her Starlight's Shadow series, beginning with Hunt the Stars, follows a bounty hunter whose growing feelings for an enemy complicate a dangerous job that may let her change the course of a wider conflict. Mihalik's novels combine galactic political intrigue, found-family dynamics, and romance, and she has continued to expand her interconnected science-fiction universes across multiple series.