New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Patricia Gussin has practiced medicine and has worked in medical research as worldwide vice president for a leading healthcare products company. She is a graduate of Aquinas College, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Columbia University Business School, and has an honorary degree from Duquesne University.

Gussin's first novel, Shadow of Death, was a finalist for Best First Novel by International Thriller Writers. Twisted Justice, The Test, And Then There Was One, Weapon of Choice, and After the Fall, winner of the Florida Book Award, followed. Come Home, Gussin's seventh novel, won the 2017 Florida Book Award Gold Medal in Popular Fiction.

She lives in Sarasota, Florida, and in Amagansett, New York, with her husband, Dr. Robert Gussin, and together they co-authored What's Next...For You?