D. J. Niko is an award-win­ning jour­nal­ist, author, edi­tor, and lec­tur­er. She writes his­tor­i­cal thrillers in a series titled The Sarah West­on Chron­i­cles. In addi­tion to writ­ing fic­tion, Daphne is a mag­a­zine edi­tor and for­mer trav­el jour­nal­ist who has logged hun­dreds of thou­sands of miles trav­el­ing across the globe, with empha­sis on lit­tle-known and off-the-beat­en-path locales�”many of which have inspired her nov­els. Born and raised in Athens, Greece, Daphne now resides in West Palm Beach, FL.