Daco is an award-winning author of novels and short stories. Cover Your Tracks (Turner Publishing/Keylight Books, October 20, 2020), Best of 2020 Suspense Thriller Suspense Magazine. Electromancer (Simon & Schuster, February 2016). Gold, Global eBook Awards. The Pisces Affair (2015), Publishers Weekly “PW Pick," Double Gold, Global eBook Awards. The Virgo Affair, Killer Nashville Noir: Cold-Blooded (Diversion Press, October 2015), multi-award winning anthology. The Alexandrite Necklace (January, 2016), Gold, Global eBook Awards.

Daco Auffenorde was born at the Naval hospital in Bethesda, Maryland and raised in Huntsville, Alabama―also known as Rocket City for its role in building the rocket that took astronauts into space―Daco holds a B.A. and M.A.S. from The University of Alabama in Huntsville and a J.D. from the Cumberland School of Law. She is a member of the International Thriller Writers, Mystery Writers of America, Alabama Writers' Forum, Authors Guild, and Alabama State Bar.