Born in Guatemala and raised on stories, Ximena Greenhouse writes contemporary romance filled with heart, healing, and the messy beauty of real love. A former journalist, she traded news deadlines for fictional heartbreaks and chasing happily-ever-after. A graduate of New York University, she lives in New Jersey with her husband and two children. When she’s not writing, she’s reading her way through her Goodreads challenge, and dreaming up new ways for her characters to bloom.