Michelle Diener

Michelle Diener is a bestselling, award-winning author of historical fiction, fantasy, and science-fiction romance who has worked in both publishing and IT. Her Class 5 series, an ongoing space-opera romance following an empath navigating an interstellar prison colony, has run to seven books, and her companion Verdant String series continues the same universe. She also writes The Rising Wave and Sky Raiders, science-fiction romance series following pilots and smugglers caught up in interplanetary conflict, and the historical Susanna Horenbout novels set in the Tudor court. Diener's fiction consistently pairs tightly plotted adventure with romantic partnerships forged under pressure, and she maintains an active readership across her many interconnected series through her website and newsletter.