Famous as the co-writer of the NY Times and USA Today bestselling House of Night young adult fiction series, Cast also pursued a solo writing career, beginning work on her first novel in 2010. Amber Smoke, the first book in her highly anticipated new adult series, releases June 2015. Her first two House of Night books, Marked and Betrayed, were published in 2007, when Cast was in her early twenties and a student at the University of Tulsa.
