Helen Oluwabunmi Joseph - or Penny, if you're lucky enough to be on a first-name basis - is a Nigerian-born writer, business maven, and full-time architect of heartbreak. She crafts stories like they're spells: dark, dazzling, and guaranteed to haunt you long after the last page.

Author of MIMI AND THE PEARL OF LORIA, MARKED BY MIDNIGHT, MOONBOND, and HEART ENTWINED IN SHADOWS, Penny doesn't do light and fluffy. Her worlds come laced with forbidden magic, dangerously tender love, and secrets sharp enough to draw blood. If your heart makes it out unscarred, you probably read it wrong.

When she's not busy building fictional universes (or casually shattering yours), she's living her own aesthetic drama: dancing under streetlights, bingeing movies until the credits blur, plotting her next passport stamp, and staring at strangers like they might be future characters.

She writes for the beautifully broken - for anyone who's ever loved too hard, lost too much, or dared to hope anyway. Because in Penny's world? The shadows always tell the best stories.