Sharon Kay Penman is the author of the historical novels A King's Ransom, The Sunne in Splendour, Here Be Dragons, Falls the Shadow, The Reckoning, When Christ and His Saints Slept, Time and Chance, Devilâs Brood, and Lionheart. Additionally, she has written four medieval mysteries in the Justin de Quincy series: The Queenâs Man, Cruel as the Grave, Dragonâs Lair, and Prince of Darkness. She lives in New Jersey.