Winner of the Holt Medallion, Maggie, Daphne du Maurier, Reviewer’s Choice and Epic Awards, Barbara Monajem wrote her first story at eight years old about apple tree gnomes. She published a middle-grade fantasy when her children were young, then moved on to Regency mysteries and  romances with intrepid heroines and long-suffering heroes (or vice  versa).

Barbara loves to cook, especially soups. She used to have two items on  her bucket list: to make asparagus pudding (because it was too weird to  resist) and succeed at knitting socks. She managed the first (it was  dreadful) and doubts she’ll ever accomplish the second. This is not a bid for immortality but merely the dismal truth. She lives near Atlanta,  Georgia with an ever-shifting population of relatives, friends, and feline strays.

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