Lynn Ames is the best-selling author of 17 books. She is a six-time Goldie Award winner, a two-time Lammy Award finalist, a Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award finalist, a Writer's Digest Book Awards honorable mention recipient, and winner of the Ann Bannon Award for Popular Fiction.She was an award-winning broadcast journalist, a former press secretary to the New York state senate minority leader, spokesperson for the nation's third-largest prison system, and a nationally recognized speaker and public relations professional with an expertise in branding and image.