Deborah D. Moore lives a quiet life in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. She was born and raised in Detroit, the kid of a cop, and moved to a small town to raise her two young sons, then moved to an even smaller town to pursue her dreams of being self-sufficient and to explore her love of writing. Her first published novel, The Journal: Cracked Earth, made the bestseller's list in just six weeks, and was followed by Ash Fall, Crimson Skies and Raging Tides; the first three were turned into a trilogy. After that came Fault Line and Martial Law to complete the Journal series. Deborah has also written a cookbook, based on her off-grid experiences in the woods of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Many of her recipes have evolved from foraging: from ramps, fiddleheads, and cattail flowers in the late spring, to various wild mushrooms all summer long.Marni Penning is a classically trained, award-winning stage and film actress who has performed in fifty-four productions of twenty-three of Shakespeare's plays to date. On the small screen, you may have caught her appearances on Guiding Light, All My Children, Law & Order: SVU, Saturday Night Live, or The Sopranos. Marni has been a voice-over artist for many years and was a disc jockey in college; she studied voice-over for animation with the legendary Pat Fraley, so her specialty is character voices and complex accents. Marni got into narration through the Library of Congress Books for the Blind program, and has appeared in over 100 large-cast recordings for Graphic Audio. Her warm, rich, inviting voice adapts equally well to cozy mysteries, sci-fi thrillers, YA fantasy, and quirky romances. She lives just outside Washington, DC, with her husband, son, dog, fish, and chickens.