"We need to talk." It's been nine years since Steph and David traded chaotic big-city life for a far more peaceful existence on remote, lovely Orcas Island. Steph has made wonderful new friends, dived into her passion for cooking, planted a garden, joined a twice-monthly Sunday Soup Group, and thrived. David...has worked. When a sudden snowstorm strands Steph's whole Soup Group at their home overnight, David is forced to rejoin her in the marital bed, where Steph comes face to face with the fact that for far too long, she's been living with a roommate, not a husband. Amid the joys and challenges of small island life, the daily struggles and romantic adventures of her friends, and the intrusion of big developers and sneaky local politics, Steph and David try to rekindle the connection they once shared. But ingrained habits are not easily broken, and burying old wounds doesn't heal them...especially when one of those wounds threatens to rise up and topple everything. Can their marriage be rescued by something as innocuous as a savory lemongrass pie?

Shannon Page was born on Halloween night and spent her early years on a back-to-the-land commune in northern California. A childhood without television gave her a great love of the written word. At seven, she wrote her first book, an illustrated adventure starring her cat Cleo. Sadly, that story is out of print, but her work has appeared in Clarkesworld, Interzone, Fantasy, Black Static, Tor.com, the Proceedings of the 2002 International Oral History Association Congress, and many anthologies, including the Australian Shadows Award-winning Grants Pass, and The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk. Books include contemporary fantasies The Queen and The Tower and A Sword in The Sun, the first two books in The Nightcraft Quartet; hippie horror novel Eel River; story collection Eastlick and Other Stories; personal essay collection I Was a Trophy Wife; Orcas Intrigue, Orcas Intruder, Orcas Investigation, and Orcas Illusion, the first four books in the cozy mystery series The Chameleon Chronicles, in collaboration with Karen G. Berry under the pen name Laura Gayle; and Our Lady of the Islands, co-written with the late Jay Lake. Our Lady received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Library Journal, was named one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2014, and was a finalist for the Endeavour Award. Forthcoming books include Nightcraft books three and four; a sequel to Our Lady; and another Orcas mystery. Edited books include the anthologies Witches, Stitches & Bitches and Black-Eyed Peas on New Year's Day: An Anthology of Hope, and the essay collection The Usual Path to Publication. Shannon is a longtime yoga practitioner, has no tattoos (but she did recently get a television), and lives on lovely, remote Orcas Island, Washington, with her husband, author and illustrator Mark Ferrari. Visit her at www.shannonpage.net.