Tonya Plank grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, but spent most of her adult life in New York, working as a criminal appeals attorney. After she'd had enough of that, she moved back out West to focus on writing. She currently lives in Southern California and writes contemporary romance and women's fiction.While working as a lawyer, Tonya developed a passion for ballroom dancing, which rekindled her childhood love of ballet. For several years, she wrote a dance blog, Swan Lake Samba Girl, journaling her experiences learning to ballroom dance, and reviewing various ballet and modern dance performances in NYC.Tonya's first novel, Swallow, an edgy chick-lit comedy about a lawyer with the psychosomatic disorder, Globus Hystericus, won gold medals in the Independent Publisher and Living Now Book Awards and was a finalist in the ForeWord Book of the Year and National Indie Excellence Awards. Her first contemporary romance series, Fever, set in the world of ballroom dancing, will be published in early summer 2015.Tonya loves taking road trips with her rescue dog, Sofia, shopping for clothes used in movies and TV shows at It's A Wrap in Burbank, devouring Mexican food and Cadillac margaritas, sweating to dance-based workouts, curling up with her cats and a good novel, and, of course, watching dance performances of all kinds. Her favorite places on earth are Lincoln Center in New York, the Pacific Coast Highway from San Diego to San Francisco, and Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah.