About the Author
Maria Vale is a journalist who has worked for Publishers Weekly, Glamour, Redbook and the Philadelphia Inquirer. She's a double Rita finalist whose books have been listed by Amazon, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, ALA Booklist and Kirkus as one of their Best Romances of the Year. Trained as a medievalist, she persists in trying to shoehorn the language of Beowulf into things that don't really need it. She lives in New York City with her husband and two children.