Sara Donati┬аis the pen name of Rosina Lippi, a former academic and tenured university professor. Since 2000 she has been writing fiction full-time, haunting the intersection where history and storytelling meet, wallowing in nineteenth-century newspapers, magazines, street maps, and academic historical research. She is the internationally bestselling author of the Wilderness series (Into the Wilderness,┬аDawn on a Distant Shore,┬аLake in the Clouds,┬аFire Along the Sky,┬аQueen of Swords, and┬аThe Endless Forest) as well as┬аThe Gilded Hour, the first in a new series following the descendants of characters from the Wilderness series. She lives between the Cascades and Puget Sound with her husband, daughter, Jimmy Dean (a Havanese), and Max and Bella (the cats).
Kate Reading┬аis the recipient of three┬аAudioFile┬аEarphones Awards, and has narrated everything from Patricia Cornwell to George Eliot.┬аHer favorite BOT recordings include┬аLike Water for Chocolate,┬аMiddlemarch, and Robert JordanтАЩs Wheel of Times series, which she narrated with her husband, Michael Kramer.