Kathy Cassel

Author Bio:

Kathy Cassel is author of more a dozen fiction and non-fiction titles for preteens and teens with Tyndale House Publishers and Legacy Press. Her Christian Girls Guide series won an iParenting award, and her first teen novel Freerunner was a 2021 Selah Award finalist. Kathy is passionate about writing realistic issues-based YA/teen fiction that not only entertains but also offers hope and healing. To better relate to her characters, she enjoys learning their skills such as whitewater rafting, scuba diving, and riding a motorcycle, but draws the line at sky diving.

Kathy has a B.S. degree in elementary education from Grace College, Winona Lake, Indiana, and a M.Ed. with a reading specialty. She grew up in northern Indiana, lived in three different continents while her husband was in the USAF, and now lives in the Florida Panhandle, all of which impacts the wide range of her fictional settings and characters. She and her husband have eight children, five of whom are adopted, three from Haiti and two from the United States. They also have four grandchildren. Kathy’s favorite activities are those that involve traveling and adventures that include her children and grandchildren.

A Thousand Lies

For talented teen photographer Bailey Collins, small-town life is good if predictable. Great friends. Loving if overly-protective parents. Academic and artistic success. An amazing new boyfriend. Until a school field trip to a Chicago photography exhibit turns upside-down everything Bailey has believed…

Catching Hope

Newly adopted Lexi Michaels is taking her first real vacation as she, twin brother Levi, adoptive brother Chad, and new cousin Jen head to Haiti where their dad, a pediatrician, will be volunteering in an island clinic. But who is the man who displays such hatred for the Michaels when they arrive at…

Freerunner

Set against the backdrop of the sport of freerunning, Kia must decide whether she will continue running or face her past abuser in order to save another child. Night is Kia’s favorite time, when she freeruns to outdistance the memories of abuse she suffered as a young child. But when former reality…