Betsey Kulakowski is the award-winning, bestselling author of The Veritas Codex paranormal thriller series. As a retired safety professional with a degree in emergency management, she is a federally trained investigator and served on disaster response teams at the Alfred P. Murrah Building Bombing, the World Trade Center, and Hurricane Katrina, among others. She's won numerous awards for her books, including multiple first-place awards from The Bookfest Awards. The King's Ransom (Book 7 of the Veritas Codex Series) won first place for Best Published Fiction at WriterCon in 2024. When she's not writing, she can be found wandering the woods of Central Arkansas looking for Bigfoot or kayaking on the many lakes and rivers. Betsey is also the co-host of The Unfreakingbelievable Podcast, available on most podcasting platforms.