Clara Vane grew up in small-town Ontario, where winters are long and neighbors know your name but not your secrets. A former real estate attorney, she spent years reading property records for what they concealed — and never stopped. The Maple Lane trilogy is her first fiction: a three-book domestic thriller set in a dying Massachusetts harbor town where one colonial house has been watching for decades. Her influences are Lisa Jewell, Riley Sager, and Shari Lapena. She lives in Ontario with her husband and two rescue dogs.