About Rebecca

Rebecca Maeve Hartwell grew up unschooled on a horse ranch in the Nevada mountains, immersed in her own world of fantasy. Playing dress-up with elaborate backstories, building forts and inventing entire fictional wars in which to defend them, devouring library books, or even directing friends in plays and home movies she scripted, everything was a story, and everyone was a character in them.

Despite this, she never considered a career in writing until her mid-twenties, instead indulging her love for plots and magic through re-enactment, acting, and escaping bad situations through daydreams. It was in the darkest moments in her life that the seeds for the first novel she wrote were planted, and she became an author in the hopes of helping others to escape, survive, recover, and thrive, just as the stories of others helped her to.



Rebecca lives and writes in Maine with her two cats. She enjoys Lindy Hop swing dancing, sewing costumes, and long drives in the dark with just the right music playing.