Mari Thorne was born and raised in Texas, will fight you about whether or not real chili has beans in it (it does NOT), and hates anything approaching cold weather. She’s a scientist by day but dreams of a life of adventure and takes every opportunity she can to travel and explore.

When not writing, Mari relaxes by playing video games, baking, camping, or cleaning her fountain pens. Anything to procrastinate. She’s married to a computer geek and musician who fills the apartment with thumping electronic beats while she writes.

She stays up past her bedtime reading M/M romance, and sometimes wakes up in the middle of the night and keeps reading because she can’t wait to find out how a story ends.

Mari loves stories that involve friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, bisexual awakenings, or fake relationships. She’s more than a little excited to explore all her favorite tropes in her own writing and tell many more sexy stories in the future!