** SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROMANTIC NOVELISTS’ ASSOCIATION’S DEBUT ROMANTIC NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2025 **

KRISTINA THORNTON writes fun and emotional romantic fiction full of self-discovery, friendship, and drama. Kristina’s debut novel, Claire Morris is Completely Lost was published by Northodox Press in July 2024. In the same year, she was a Runner Up for the RNA’s Joan Hessayon Award for her debut and was also shortlisted for the RNA’s Elizabeth Goudge Trophy for the opening to her third book.

Kristina’s next novel will be published by Harpeth Road Press in July 2026.

Her flash fictions have been published in anthologies and literary magazines. In 2023, her stories were featured in Flash Fiction Festival Five and Scratching the Sands – National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2023. 

She is a former BBC presenter and broadcast journalist, working in radio for seventeen years, before turning her attention to writing fiction. Kristina grew up in Doncaster and now lives in Derbyshire, England with her husband and two sons.