K.E.M. Johnston was born in Gibraltar, studied Business and International Marketing in the UK, speaks French and German, and worked in advertising and public relations in London's Covent Garden before moving to the US. She is widely published in children's, parent and business magazines, and when not working on her current novel, tutors a group of sixth-grade students in Creative Writing. Ms. Johnston now lives in suburban Northern Virginia, on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., and a few miles from historic Manassas, the location for The Witness Tree and the Shadow of the Noose, with her Brit...