Yvonne Heidt is an award-winning author of paranormal and modern romance. She was born in the Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco in the early sixties during the hippie revolution and lived in the same apartment building as Jimi Hendrix (but not at the same time). Her debut novel, Sometime Yesterday, won the 2013 Golden Crown Literary Award for Best Paranormal Romance in addition to being a finalist in the 2013 Lambda Literary Awards, and placing in the 2013 Rainbow awards. The Awakening: Book One in the Sisters of Spirits Trilogy, also won the 2014 Golden Crown Literary award for Best Paranormal. The Quickening: Book Two was a GCLS finalist in 2015. She lives in Texas with her partner of 14 years and their four dogs.