Wendy Webb is the #1 Amazon Charts and Indie bestselling, multiple award-winning author of nine novels of gothic suspense, including The Stroke of Winter, The Keepers of Metsan Valo, The Haunting of Brynn Wilder, Daughters of the Lake, The Vanishing, The Fate of Mercy Alban, The Tale of Halcyon Crane, and The End of Temperance Dare, which has been optioned for both film and television. Her books are sold worldwide and have been translated into a dozen languages. Dubbed "Queen of the Northern Gothic" by reviewers, Wendy sets her stories on the windswept, rocky shores of the Great Lakes. She lives in Minneapolis, where she is at work on her next novel when she's not walking a good dog along the parkway and lakes near her home. For more information, visit her at www.wendykwebb.com.