About the Author

Hi, my name is Kathy Smith and I'd like to tell you a story. I grew up in a small town in central Maine, where life is supposed to be simple and wholesome. Mine was anything but...I dug my way out and at 18 I attended the University of Maine, same place where Stephen King honed his skills and sharpened his pencils. It was there that I discovered that there was a whole world outside of New England where I could go and explore and learn and fill in the missing pieces of my life; and so I began to travel. However, like many of us do, I settled down, married, and had the 2 most incredible kids that ever walked this earth. And like many of us do, I became a single parent, focusing on raising these incredible little people and developing their passions, their skills, talents, their quirks, and their personalities. But I could never shake the feeling that I was missing out on something; that there was more that I could be doing; that there was more that I could BE. So I started to travel again, going across the U.K. visiting historic places, exploring the most haunted castles, meeting fascinating people; and the most incredible story evolved from these travels. I'm not the most prolific writer and I am definitely not the best editor as I have a bad habit of breaking all of the literary rules which has made many literary agent's hair stand up on end. But who cares? I am a GREAT story teller.