Sharon (formerly SJ) Bolton grew up in a cotton-mill town in Lancashire and had an eclectic early career which is now rather embarrassed about. She gave it all up to become a mother and a writer.

Her first novel, SACRIFICE, was voted Best New Read by Amazon.uk, whilst her second, Awakening, won the 2010 Mary Higgins Clark award. In 2014, Lost, (UK title, Like This, For Ever) was named RT Magazine’s Best Contemporary Thriller in the US, and in France, Now You See Me won the Plume de Bronze. That same year, Sharon was awarded the CWA Dagger in the Library, for her entire body of work.