USA Today Bestselling author Gail Cleare used to write for newspapers, magazines, ad agencies, and Fortune 50 companies. She wrote a monthly column for AOL called "I Love Chocolate" and hosted a popular live chat about cocoa cookery and its fascinating history.

Now she writes fiction and lives on an 18th century farm in Massachusetts with her family and dogs, cats, chickens, black bears, beavers, blue herons, rushing streams, and wide, windy skies. When she's not writing, Gail is usually working in her organic vegetable garden or stalking wild creatures with a 300mm lens.