Meet the winner of UBAWA's Best Book Cover Contest - Round 9: Kenya Rivers

Kenya Rivers started writing at the tender age of ten penning songs, poems and short stories. Kenya was a shy daydreamer who used her imagination to create the many stories she was able to see so vividly. She won area writing contests that fueled her desire to put those thoughts on paper. With this new found passion Kenya was able to share her love with the world through writing. She was born in Chicago and raised in California. Kenya graduated and studied to become a nurse at El Camino College.
During those following years she was diagnosed with Hypertension and Graves diseases and Chronic Migraines and a Pituitary Brain Tumor that affected her vision in 2006. Kenya was treated with serval different medications to shrink the tumor but, it was not successful. In 2007, she underwent brain surgery and it was a success.

In 2010, Kenya put her pen back to use and began writing her first story destined for the publishing world. Endless Nights, her first novel was release in 2014. Kenya doesn’t conform to one specific genre. She encompasses the reality of her life. She keeps the stories as true as they are given to her and lets her readers into her inner self putting her vulnerability on display.

In December 2012 Kenya was diagnosed with Leukemia (Blood and Bone Marrow Cancer), Fibromyalgia, which put her in a severe depression, and anxiety that took control of her body. Despite everything that she has endured in her life, Kenya continues to push through it all, as she fights every day and works hard to stay strong for her and her family. She stays focused in her writing as she uses it to inspire others. Kenya’s upcoming adult novel is entitled, Dangerously Obsessed.

About her book, Dangerously Obsessed

Angela Moore is a successful, independent woman with beauty inside and out. Growing up in a stable home, she has everything she ever wanted and more. Angela wasn’t looking for love, but somehow she ended up falling in love with a man, that swept her off her feet. When things couldn’t get any better, an unexpected surprise surfaced into their relationship. When an ex-fiancée comes back into the picture, her world is turned upside down as drama begins to unfold. 
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Ryan Nelson has it all. He’s a million dollar man that every woman wants. However, his love life went downhill when he was betrayed by his ex-fiancée. It’s been two years and he has moved on with his life. With a new love interest, he couldn’t be happier. That is until his ex-fiancée became his worst nightmare. 
Tiffany Landers is one mad woman with only one thing on her mind “DEATH”. She is determined to get what was hers, and to get the woman that came between her and her king. After all these years, she is still in love with Ryan Nelson. She has planned and plotted, putting everything into motion, and she won’t stop until she gets what she wants.

Visit her website: ​http://www.authoresskrivers.com/