Shelley Tan is an educator and mother of twin boys. She grew up in Northern California but vacationed on Balboa Island in Southern California as a child with her family. Balboa Island was to her the happiest place on earth. Her debut novel, Better Late Than Forever, takes her and her reader back to that place where a romance she never expected occurs, and the chance to relive her childhood fairytale. When she is not working or writing, Shelley enjoys gardening and drinking wine, but not necessarily in that order.