Elise Hart Kipness is the bestselling author of the Kate Green Series. The first in the series, LIGHTS OUT, was chosen as a top ten Men’s Journal Book of 2023, a Woman’s Day Daily Selection and Fresh Fiction Box selection. DANGEROUS PLAY, the second in the series, was a Scripps News Beach Read as well as featured in Writer's Digest, Yahoo! Life Feature and Nerd Daily. The third book in the series, CLOSE CALL, comes out in August 2025. The Kate Green series is being developed for TV by a major Hollywood studio. Before becoming an author, Elise was a national television news and sports reporter.