Katherine Reay is a national bestselling and award-winning author of several novels. She has enjoyed a lifelong affair with books and history and brings that love to her stories. Katherine has also written one full-length nonfiction work. She holds a BA and MS from Northwestern University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, and has lived across the country with a few years in England and Ireland as well. A full-time author and mother of three children, Katherine and her husband currently live outside Chicago, IL. Her latest novel is: The Berlin Letters.

Learn more at katherinereay.com
X: @katherine_reay

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Lynne Golodner writes emotional novels with compelling
Jewish characters who are determined to fill their lives with
passion, purpose and love. Her first novel, Woman of Valor,
joins a body of work that includes two poetry collections and
six nonfiction books, including Hide and Seek: Jewish Women
and Hair Covering and The Flavors of Faith: Holy Breads.
Lynne is a writing coach, marketing entrepreneur and host of
the Make Meaning Podcast, and her creative nonfiction has
been published around the world. With a BA from University
of Michigan and an MFA from Goddard College, Lynne is the
mother of four and lives in Huntington Woods, Michigan,
with her husband, Dan.

Learn more at lynnegolodner.com.

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Nick Petrie received his MFA in fiction from the University of Washington and won a Hopwood Award for short fiction while an undergraduate at the University of Michigan. His story “At the Laundromat” won the 2006 Short Story Contest in The Seattle Review, a national literary journal.

His first novel, The Drifter, won the ITW Thriller and Barry Awards, and was nominated for Edgar, Anthony, and Hammett Awards. He won the 2016 Literary Award from the Wisconsin Library Association and was named one of Apple’s 10 Writers to Read in 2017. Light It Up was named the Best Thriller of 2018 by Apple Books. Both Light it Up and The Wild One were shortlisted for the Barry Award.

His books in the Peter Ash series are The Drifter, Burning Bright, Light It Up, Tear It Down, The Wild One, The Breaker, and The Runaway. A husband and father, he has worked as a carpenter, remodeling contractor, and building inspector. He lives in Milwaukee, where he is hard at work on the next Peter Ash novel, the latest: The Price You Pay.

Learn more at: : NickPetrie.com
Twitter: @_NickPetrie_

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