KATE HEARTFIELD is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Embroidered Book, The Valkyrie, The Chatelaine, and The Tapestry of Time. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the World Fantasy, Nebula, Locus, Sunburst, Scribe and Crawford awards, and she has won the Aurora Award three times. Her journalism was shortlisted for a National Newspaper Award. Kate lives in Canada.You can visit her at www.kateheartfield.comand on Bluesky @kateheartfield.com