Shelly Sanders is a free­lance jour­nal­ist with arti­cles in the Toron­to Star, Maclean’s, and Reader’s Digest. She has writ­ten three YA his­tor­i­cal nov­els with a starred review in Book­list, two Syd­ney Tay­lor Book Awards, and was cho­sen as a TD Cana­da Book Week Author in 2015.