Megan Shepherd is the New York Times bestselling and Carnegie Medal–nominated author of many acclaimed middle-grade and young adult novels, including The Secret Horses of Briar Hill, the Madman’s Daughter series, the Cage series, and the Grim Lovelies series. She lives and writes on a haunted 125-year-old farm outside Asheville, North Carolina, with her family and their very scruffy dog.