USA TODAY bestselling author Donna Kauffman is a former RITA® Award finalist who has seen her books reviewed in venues ranging from Kirkus Reviews to Library Journal to Entertainment Weekly, as well as excerpted in periodicals like Cosmopolitan. She lives just outside of the nation’s capital in the lovely Virginia countryside, where her nest has emptied of children but seems to rapidly be filling back up with an eclectic menagerie that includes Zazu, a bossy little parrot, and Rufus the mutant catfish. Donna and her menagerie love to hear from readers. You can contact her through her Web site, www.donnakauffman.com.