Stephanie de la Cruz is a mystery writer who came in the top 64 out of 291 for her genre in an international competition called Writing Battle.

She is currently working on getting her murder mystery series published. The first in the series, Echoes of Deceit, follows detective Ella Navarre and her partner, detective Nick Collins as they try to solve the murder of a woman named Whitney Nelson. But as they dig into her past, what they find is not a suspect with a motive but another murder—one that Whitney herself was trying to solve. Soon, Ella and Nick are thrown into a web of lies they must navigate before someone else gets murdered.