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Hannah Grace

Hannah Grace is a contemporary romance novelist best known for the Maple Hills series, including Icebreaker and Wildfire. Writing college-set sports romances and emotionally driven love stories, she rose to prominence through BookTok and became a New York Times bestselling author with a large international readership.

Biography & Author's Journey

Hannah Grace is an English romance novelist who writes under a pen name and has kept most identifying details of her life deliberately private. Because of that choice, public information about her early years and formal education is limited, but she has described herself as a child who spent a great deal of time in libraries and as someone who long loved reading before she ever imagined writing professionally. The decisive turn came during the pandemic, when a writer friend encouraged her to try fiction for herself. What began as a hobby became a serious creative outlet; Grace has said that writing helped her manage anxiety by letting her step, for a time, into someone else’s life. That private beginning shaped the tone of her later work: intimate, emotionally direct, and designed to feel welcoming rather than forbidding. ((https://thenewsette.com/2024/09/05/hannah-grace/))

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It’s a pen name. My real first name is Hannah
-About
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I made the decision at the start of my author journey to remain anonymous, meaning I don’t do in person events
-About
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The honest answer is absolutely everything!
-Audible interview: Daydream
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My favorite romance trope is marriage of convenience!
-Audible interview: Daydream
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I always joke that I just girlbossed too close to the sun, but the reality is my pandemic hobby went a little further than a hobby
-The Newsette interview
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I’ve always struggled with anxiety and I found writing helped me escape to someone else’s life for a little while
-The Newsette interview
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I like the escapism that comes with contemporary romance
-BookTrib interview: Wildfire
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This book was more personal for me than Icebreaker and I put a lot of my real feelings into it
-BookTrib interview: Wildfire
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Thankfully, my storylines are not based in reality. I don’t think they’d be enjoyable to write if they were!
-BookTrib interview: Wildfire
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If were real, I’d bet that her favourite Taylor Swift song would be This is Me Trying
-First Impressions

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"Hannah Grace creates a swoon-worthy—and sexy—story of frenemies turned lovers"

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"Hannah Grace returns with my newest obsession: Russ Callaghan, summer camp and more of her trademark delicious and sizzling chemistry"

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"Hannah Grace writes a college romance like no other"

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"The summer heat index hits a record high in Hannah Grace’s red-hot romance"

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"Hannah Grace's sophomore novel is honest, vulnerable, and deliciously sexy"

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"Hannah Grace took forced proximity into the rink in Icebreaker, amped up the heat in Wildfire and turned friends into lovers in Daydream"

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"In Hannah Grace’s earnestly winsome novel, the meek are set to inherit true love"

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"Hannah Grace originally self-published her novel Icebreaker, proving that independent publishing is absolutely a solid option for many authors"

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