Alyssa Day is the pen name (and dark and tortured alter ego) of author Alesia Holliday. As Alesia, she wrote her first book, an award-winning account of life as a military family during war-time, during the long nights when her Navy flyer husband was on deployment after 9/11.  As Alyssa, she's an award-winning and New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of romantasy, paranormal romance, and mystery novels whose books have won many awards, sold more than a million copies, and been translated into many languages (although she’s holding out for Klingon). She has lived with and battled chronic depression for her entire life and finally admitted it to her family—and the world—in 2014. Life is better now, because depression lies and tells us we’re alone. We’re not.