Cari Hunter lives in the Northwest of England with her wife, two cats, and a pond full of frogs. She works full-time as a paramedic and dreams up stories in her spare time.Cari enjoys long, wind-swept, muddy walks in her beloved Peak District and forces herself to go jogging regularly. In the summer she can usually be found sitting in the garden with her feet up, scribbling in her writing pad. She also loves hiking in the Swiss Alps and mucking about online. Although she doesn't like to boast, she will admit that she makes a very fine Bakewell Tart.Her first novel, Snowbound, received an Alice B. Lavender Certificate for outstanding début. Desolation Point, was shortlisted for a Goldie award and a runner-up in the 2013 Rainbow Awards, and its sequel, Tumbledown, was a runner-up in the 2014 Rainbow Awards. Cari has recently been working on a new crime series based in the Peak District. The first book - No Good Reason - is due for release in June, 2015, and its sequel, Cold to the Touch, is scheduled to be published in December, 2015.Cari can be contacted at: carihunter@rocketmail.com, via her blog: http://carihunter.wordpress.com/, or by dropping by and saying hi on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/cari.hunter.9 :-)