SHANE PEACOCK is a biographer, journalist, screenwriter and the author of more than a dozen books for young readers, including The Boy Sherlock Holmes series, The Dark Missions of Edgar Brim and The Artist and Me. His work has won many honors, including the Geoffrey Bilson Award, the Libris Award and two Arthur Ellis Awards for Crime Fiction. His novel Becoming Holmes was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award. Shane and his wife live with their three children on a small farm near Cobourg, Ontario, where he continues to search for and imagine larger-than-life characters. Separated is the prequel to Last Message, Shane’s novel in Seven (the series).