Adaline Winters is a former criminal intelligence analyst and current high school teacher, who teaches sulky teenagers the joy of math . . . In return they gift her with endless sarcasm and witty banter that makes her smile. She lives with her husband, teenage daughter, and bonkers dog, in the not so sunny but scenic, Lake District, England. Adaline began writing following a diagnosis with a life altering disease and brain surgery. Writing became a way of expressing and channeling the pain and frustration into something tangible, and the characters running around her healing brain leapt from mind to paper. When she's not writing, you can find her failing to grow tomatoes or reading anything fantasy based-particularly books with strong heroines who drive alpha males insane. Nicol Zanzarella is an Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator and a theater and television actress. She has appeared in productions of Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, The Winter's Tale, Cousin Bette, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, and many others.