JPC Allen started her writing career in second grade with an homage to Scooby Doo, and she's been tracking down mysteries ever since. She's a Selah-finalist at the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference in both short story and YA categories for her YA series, Rae Riley Mysteries. Her first Rae Riley novel, A Shadow on the Snow, won first place in the ACFW KidLit contest for YA fiction. A Storm of Doubts, her second novel, came in second in both the KidLit and Selah contests.She writes novels for teens who are looking for a different kind of Christian fiction, stories that tie the mysteries of faith with real-world mysteries and dangers, stories that ask tough questions that a tougher God can always handle.JPC Allen loves to teach about writing and has led workshops online and in-person, encouraging writers to discover the adventure of writing on their own terms. Coming from a long line of Mountaineers, she's a life-long Buckeye and sets all her mysteries in fictional Marlin County Ohio.