Maria Vale's The Last Wolf was a double Rita finalist and named a Best Book of 2018 by Library Journal and Amazon. Her second volume, A Wolf Apart, was named a Best Book of 2018 by Publishers Weekly; and Forever Wolf, named a Best Book of 2019 by Booklist. A journalist who has worked for Publishers Weekly, Glamour magazine, Redbook, the Philadelphia Inquirer, she currently lives in New York with her husband, two sons, and a long line of dead plants. No one will let her have a pet. Visit her online at mariavale.com.