Emily Larkin is the USA Today bestselling author of the Baleful Godmother historical romance series, a series that readers are calling "sexy, unusual and vastly entertaining," and "ridiculously wonderful." When not reading or writing, Emily can be found hiking, preferably somewhere off the beaten track. She loves to travel, and has lived in Sweden, backpacked in Europe and North America, and traveled overland in the Middle East, China, and North Africa. Her varied career includes stints as a field assistant in Antarctica and a waitress on the Isle of Skye. Emily writes historical romances as Emily Larkin and fantasy novels as Emily Gee. She has been a finalist in the Romance Writers of America RITA award, National Readers Choice, Booksellers Best, and Sir Julius Vogel awards, and has won the Australian Romantic Book of the Year and New Zealand Romance of the Year awards.