Melara Dark is a multi-genre writer of speculative fiction, with an eye toward diversity, inclusion, and the LGBT+ community. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her wife, who is both her rock, and her eternal reminder that heroes truly can come from anywhere. They can be anyone. Our strength is in our resolve to be true to ourselves, and to the world around us. To exist without apology, to thrive without shame, and to love without condition. Love can overcome even the deepest of horrors or the most trying of circumstances, and, like hope and like heroes, it can come from the most unexpected places.