TRACY L. CARBONE is a Massachusetts native who works in corporate banking by day, and writes by night. A past co-chair of New England Horror Writers, she was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for her editing work on Epitaphs: A Journal of the New England Horror Writers. My Name Is Marnie is her sixth published book. Her previous titles including The Soul Collector, a young adult science fiction novel, Restitution, a suspense thriller, The Proteus Cure, a medical thriller co-written with F. Paul Wilson, a collection of horror and literary dark stories aptly titled The Collection and Other Dark Tales, and her most recent thriller, Hope House. Her short stories have been published in several magazines and anthologies in the U.S. and Canada. She is leaving her cozy hamlet in Northern Massachusetts, where she lives with her daughter and an assortment of pets, for the sunshine and beaches of Southern California.