K.C. HELD is the author of Holding Court, a YA mystery that won the YARWA Athena Award for Best First Book, as well as 1st Place in the Contemporary Category. She holds an MFA in costume design and has worked with her share of vampires, ninjas, superheroes, and assassins. Born and raised in California with stopovers in Honduras, Mexico, and France, K.C. recently traded the Rocky Mountains of Colorado for the Midwestern charm of Indiana. Although she once spent a summer working in a castle, there were no dead bodies involved.

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K.C. Held

K.C. Held