Ashley Elston

Ashley Elston is an American author of young adult and adult fiction whose novels combine warm family dynamics with compelling mysteries and romance. She lives in Shreveport, Louisiana, with her husband and three sons, and has worked in landscape architecture and interior design. Elston's YA novels include 10 Blind Dates — a Christmas romance in which a heartbroken senior lets her large, eccentric extended family set her up on ten blind dates over the holidays — and its companion novels. She has also written acclaimed thrillers including This Is Our Story, The Rules for Disappearing (a finalist for the ITW Thriller Award for Best YA Novel), and adult thrillers including First Lie Wins, which became a Reese's Book Club pick and a major bestseller. Her writing is praised for its warmth, its clever plotting, and its ability to balance humour with genuine emotional stakes. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers entertaining, smartly plotted fiction that celebrates family bonds, second chances, and the surprises that come when you stop trying to control everything.