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D.M. Simmons

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D.M. Simmons is an award-winning author who studied literature, creative writing and communications at University of the Pacific. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and has for more than two decades has written for executives, parenting websites, fiction anthologies, and lovers of YA and NA fiction. She grew up in a small town in California's Sierra Nevada Foothills, at the end of a dusty road, in a town no one can spell right. She has lived and worked overseas, and currently calls the San Francisco Bay Area home, where she lives with her husband, sons, and two cats. Her debut novel EVOKE received a gold medal in the 2019 Reader’s Favorite International Book Awards. The highly anticipated follow up comes out October 2021.
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EVOKE

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New Adult Fiction

When the friends come home for their last summer together, the bond they've shared since childhood is strong as ever. But when Laney wakes up two-months later and learns she is the only survivor of a car accident that has claimed the lives of Caleb, Lisa, and Timmy, Laney realizes the world she has awakened to is not the one she remembers. Set in the fictional town of Lake Haven, Maine, EVOKE examines the complexities of love and loss, and the friendships that forever change us.​
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RAVEL

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New Adult Fiction

It’s been two years since an accident claimed the lives of her friends & stopped her heart. But when the truth brought Laney Thomas back, something followed. The darkness is never just itself. Something is always hiding in its shadows.​
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