Seventeen-year-old homeschooler Teresa Gaskins has a particular set of skills, many of which have no use in her day-to-day life. Her interests range from trapshooting, to lock picking, to playing the violin. But her greatest interest is storytelling, which she's been doing since before she could write.

Though she enjoys a variety of fiction, fantasy has always been Teresa's favorite genre. Betrayed is her third published book, and she hopes to keep writing as long as she has stories to tell.

Teresa lives in rural Illinois with her overlord cat Cimorene, her beloved pit bull Natasha, and the rest of her family.