Susan King is the bestselling, award-winning author of over two dozen historical novels and novellas praised for historical accuracy, master storytelling and lyricism. As Susan King and Sarah Gabriel, she has written several historical romances for Penguin and HarperCollins; as Susan Fraser King, she writes historical fiction, including Lady Macbeth: A Novel, and Queen Hereafter: A Novel of Margaret of Scotland, from Random House. A former college lecturer and a current and founding member of the popular Word Wenches blog, Susan holds a graduate degree in art history and lives in Maryland with her family.