Samaire Provost is the author of Mad World: EPIDEMIC, Mad World: SANCTUARY, Mad World: DESPERATION, and ROMANOV. A writer with a passion for creating stories, she is ecstatic to have finally gotten the last word on her second-grade teacher's complaint that she daydreamed too much in class. Owned by a cat named Tyrion, she can be found in the shadows that hang low over the hills of southern Virginia.