Zara Castle is a bestselling dark fantasy and contemporary romance author from the Pacific Northwest. While she’s been reading all her life, she started writing her first novel in 2024. As an avid consumer of romantic fiction, she has read everything from fluffy fantasy to alien adventures. Her favorite color is the rainbow and she has a concerning obsession with quippy stickers.

In 2023, she began plotting and writing her debut series, a dark paranormal reverse harem romance, which released on March 20, 2026, with many other novels planned for the future. As an avid reader prior to pursuing her passion for writing, she set out to write a story that she wanted to read, to create a world that she could escape to and imagine herself as the heroine of her own story where deeply flawed, damaged characters fought for and won their happily ever afters.

In 2026, she became a full-time author after a 15-year corporate career in strategic marketing and project management.