Jayla Jasso is a romance author and member of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers. Her first novel, Caribbean Jewel, is currently #15 on the Amazon Kindle Top 100 Bestseller List for Historical Fiction-Caribbean and Latin America.

Jayla knew she wanted to be a novelist at age 15. Her “what do you want to be when you grow up” dream was to sell a novel by senior year, move to California, go to UCLA, and marry David Lee Roth. Unfortunately that career path didn’t pan out, so her first job was working as a secretary at an egg farm in East Texas, where she learned that there is a right place and a wrong place to have the song “Kiss You All Over” by Exile on constant repeat on a boom box. After high school, Jayla’s mother made her join the Army to help pay for college, and she made it through basic training by some freak luck of the draw, because she is way more interested in manicures than M-16s. With the dream of being a novelist still intact, Jayla majored in English at the University of Oklahoma, then embarked on the fantastic adventure of Finding Work With An English Degree. It made her tough. And creative. And good at surviving on very little money if need be.

Jayla speaks fluent Spanish and has been known to salsa dance with the hotel staff at Costa Rican resorts upon occasion. She is an expert vegan soup chef and avid Xbox role-playing gamer. Her current work, The Omaja Stone, was inspired by too much time spent playing Assassin’s Creed, Dragon Age Origins, and Oblivion. You can find her at www.jaylajasso.com.