KIM MURPHY

The author of The Dreaming: Walks Through Mist, a mix of a 17th-century Virginia witch   trial and the Powhatan chiefdom. She has also written an American Civil War trilogy, and two   ghostly tales with a Civil War ghost story. A resident of Virginia, when she isn't researching or writing, Kim is hiking with her Belgian sheepdogs, Saber and Phoebe.