Vivian Carroll spent twenty-two years as a school counselor, listening to other people's stories and understanding what it takes to survive. She knows what it means to hold someone's truth. And what the truth costs.

Her debut novel, Beautiful Disaster, goes where most love stories won’t. Love does damage. She’s seen it. Now she writes it.

Her first published piece was a humorous short story in The Beachcomber, because laughter is good for everyone.

She lives at the beach near Savannah, Georgia, where she tap-dances, line dances, and is dancing her way through life. She has also recently learned to paint, and the cover of Beautiful Disaster is inspired by a painting of the Finger Lakes that she made for her husband.