Christina Gonzalez writes emotionally rich, culturally rooted fiction about grief, healing, family, and the surprising places love takes root. Her *Remedies of the Heart* series blends slow-burn romance and women’s fiction with herbs, gardens, food traditions, found family, and just enough humor to keep the heartbreak from having the last word. Born in Okinawa and shaped by years spent living in Mexico, Japan, Germany, Italy, and across the United States, Christina has long been fascinated by the ways people carry home, heritage, and memory with them. Her more than twenty years as a psychotherapist also inform the emotional honesty of her characters—complicated people who do not heal overnight or through romance alone, but through connection, courage, nature, and the occasional well-timed cup of tea. Christina now lives in Southwest Florida, where she writes, practices psychotherapy, studies herbalism, and attempts to transform her yard into a food forest. When she isn’t writing, she can usually be found growing herbs, inventing recipes inspired by her characters, or explaining why adding a new plant to her garden is entirely justified.
