Odessa has a passion for writing stories that rivet and excite readers and aims to create stories that feel like an escape from the mundane. She is an award-winning filmmaker, a cancer survivor, and spent well over a decade working in the movie industry on high-budget films and television shows. She's had a variety of tough and physical jobs but storytelling has always had a spell over her. She has enjoyed writing fiction since she was very young, scribbling rom-com scripts on spiral-bound notebooks in her parents' basement. She's finally found a way to put her over-active imagination to good use.

Though born in Wyoming and spending most of her adult life in the deep South in Florida and Louisiana, she now lives on the beach in Connecticut with her boyfriend, various small pets, and rambunctious jack russels. When she isn't writing, she's usually buried in a masochistic puzzle, tending to her massive vegetable garden, fumbling through an escape room, kayak fishing on Long Island Sound, or playing video games with her sister (who is also an author, writing under the pen name Aurora Alba)

Odessa Alba is a romance pen name (an easy way to keep her genre fiction separate for readers) & has published a number of novels in extreme horror under her real name, Erica Summers, and also writes cozy mysteries under the name, Trixie Fairdale.

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