“Saying his name stabbed my heart, like someone had ripped through my carefully stitched up world and exposed the infected, pulsing red tissue that I thought was healing.”

American writer

Colleen Houck is an American writer best known for the two New York Times best-selling series Tiger's Curse and Reawakened. Her books have been widely collected by libraries around the world, which has helped her work reach a broad readership. She is associated with young adult fiction and with series writing built around adventure, romance, and fantasy elements.