Vanessa is the author of the USA Today bestselling suspense novel, Blood Sisters, which launches a new series with #MMIW2S at the heart of the stories. Her previous bestselling thrillers Little Voices and For the Best. She also co-authored the #1 bestselling and ITW award nominated Audible Original Young Rich Widows (April 2022), now coming to print in April 2024, with the sequel forthcoming, Desparate Deadly Widows, coming to Audible in March 2024.   

With fifteen years of marketing and communications experience, Vanessa was a columnist for the Providence Journal and hosts an Instagram Live show with crime fiction authors. She is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma living on Narragansett land in Rhode Island.