LynDee Walker is the national bestselling author of two crime fiction series featuring strong heroines and "twisty, absorbing" mysteries. Her first Nichelle Clarke crime thriller, FRONT PAGE FATALITY, was nominated for the Agatha Award for best first novel and is an Amazon Charts Best- seller. In 2018, she introduced readers to Texas Ranger Faith McClellan in FEAR NO TRUTH. Reviews have praised her work as "well-crafted, compelling, and fast-paced," and "an edge-of-your-seat ride" with "a spider web of twists and turns that will keep you reading until the end."Before she started writing fiction, LynDee was an award-winning jour- nalist who covered everything from ribbon cuttings to high level police corruption, and worked closely with the various law enforcement agencies that she reported on. Her work has appeared in newspapers and magazines across the U.S.Aside from books, LynDee loves her family, her readers, travel, and coffee. She lives in Richmond, Virginia, where she is working on her next novel when she's not juggling laundry and children's sports schedules.Laura Muse is a software engineer. She spends her free time reading books, reviewing books, photographing books, and promoting books on social media. Thanks to her past life as a competitive barista and barista trainer, she has developed a refined palette for both coffee and wine and spends weekends visiting small vineyards throughout Virginia with her family. She lives by a river in northern Virginia with her diabetic cat, Hero. DANGEROUS INTENT is her first published work.