Amanda Daire

Amanda Daire is the women’s fiction pen name of USA Today bestselling author Amanda Torrey. She writes emotionally rich stories about multidimensional women, complicated families, difficult choices, and the beautiful possibility that your past doesn’t have to decide what happens next.

Amanda especially loves writing flawed characters who could be your friends and exploring the questions that don’t come with easy answers. Her stories are filled with mothers and daughters, friendship and forgiveness, family secrets, chosen family, second chances, and healing hearts. They might make you laugh. They’ll probably make you cry. They’ll definitely make you think. But however difficult the journey, there will always be hope waiting on the other side.

When she isn’t emotionally complicating the lives of fictional women, Amanda loves spending time with her adult children, her new grandbaby (!!!), and her real-life hero. She is obsessed with bookstores, trees, foxes, elephants, castles, tea, traveling, gardening, and about seven thousand other things that ignite her curiosity—but she was told this bio should be brief.

Amanda especially loves connecting with readers and inviting people into her "chosen family" circle.

She also writes small-town romance as Amanda Torrey and cozy fantasy as Amanda Sullivan, and cohosts the Fiction Faeries Podcast with Christine DePetrillo, where their mission is to spread joy through creativity.

Come for the stories. Stay for the conversation. ❤️