Vesper Kane has been reading fiction since before she was old enough to admit what she was drawn to, and writing it in the margins of everything else ever since. She does not stay in one genre. She has written werewolf romance and she will write mafia thrillers. She has written corporate revenge arcs and she will write BL, LGBTQIA stories, fantasy epics, and dark fiction that does not apologize for going somewhere uncomfortable. The thread running through all of it is the same: women at the centre of their own stories, in whatever form that takes. Her female leads are not waiting. They are not hoping. They are building, deciding, and collecting what they are owed. Her male leads, when they appear, have to earn every page they are on. Her love interests, regardless of gender, are written with the same demand: show up correctly or the story will move without you. She believes the best tension is the kind that costs both people something real. She believes in slow burns that actually pay off. She believes a betrayal should hurt, a redemption should be worked for, and a villain should make sense even when they are unforgivable. Vesper Kane writes for readers who want to feel something that stays with them after the last chapter. Before You Beg is where she starts. It will not be where she stops.