Cidney Mayes is the author of Season of Fire and The Starlit Shadow. Based in Portland, Maine, she is a teacher librarian, Yale Writers’ Workshop alumna, and MFA in Creative Writing candidate at Southern New Hampshire University. Before writing fiction, she spent over a decade reviewing books until she decided to write the ones she longed to find. She writes stories where knowledge and love are both sources of power and peril; forces that tempt, transform, and empower. When she isn’t buried in a novel, you can find her playing board games and video games, wandering wooded paths, or watching reality TV with her husband and cats. You can connect with her at cidneymayes.com.