Amy Pendino, a Minnesota native, works as a middle-school English teacher by day and a horse midwife by night. Formerly a keyboard player for a local band, she's also waitressed, worked as a secretary in college athletics, sung backup for an international star, and horseback rides a new mountain range every summer. She belongs to the Twin Cities chapter of Sisters in Crime; her writing has been published in several magazines and reviews. This is her first published novel.