https://www.shalanabattles.com/

Shalana Battles is a dark and paranormal romance author who writes emotionally charged stories about dangerous love, fractured people, and the pull between light and shadow. Her work blends gritty realism with supernatural elements, creating high-stakes worlds where morally gray heroes and haunted heroines are forced to confront both external threats and their own pasts. She is the author of multiple indie-published novels and the creator of the Ashenheart series, beginning with Heart of a Killer. Her books have built a loyal and growing readership through direct-to-reader platforms, including successful Kickstarter campaigns and an engaged newsletter community.

With a background in cultural anthropology and journalism, Shalana’s award-winning ethnographic work—earning first place at the Society for Applied Anthropology Conference—informs her storytelling. She strives to weave culture, belief systems, and lived experience into fiction that feels both immersive and deeply human.Shalana is also passionate about domestic violence awareness, drawing from her own history to explore themes of darkness, survival, and the enduring search for light. She lives in western Colorado with her husband and two children, where she owns a local waste management company.

She writes romance for the ones who’ve been through hell—the wounded, the wild, and the ones who stay.