Peggy Jo Hall is a script writer, and first place winner of the Bare Bones Film Festival in Muskogee, OK. A lifelong resident of Oklahoma, all her writing is based on historical information. Her first novel, His Mistress' Thrall, was an account of William Shakespear's love affair with Mary Browne Wriothesley, the Earl of Southampton's mother. Dark Lies the Shadow is her second novel.