Vanessa is the author of the bestselling thrillers Little Voices (October 2019) and For the Best (September 2020). She also co-authored the instant bestselling Audible Original Young Rich Widows (April 2022), with more than 4,000 reviews. With fifteen years of marketing and communications experience, Vanessa is a columnist for the Providence Journal and hosts a weekly Instagram Live event with crime fiction authors. She is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma living on Narragansett land in Rhode Island.