Rhodi Hawk is the International Thriller Writers award-winning author of A Twisted Ladder and The Tangled Bridge. Her short fiction has been published in popular magazines and anthologies, and her work has been praised by industry legends, including Tess Gerritsen, Sarah Langan, and Sarah Pinborough. Reading has been her delight since childhood. In recent years, a motor neuron disease has left Rhodi a wheelchair warrior with impaired cognitive ability. That neurodivergence informs Janey's struggle with reading and writing in This Town Won't Tell. Devoted to wildlife and the natural world, Rhodi lives in piney woods with a pair of vultures, her cat, Pumpkin, and her husband, Bram Stoker Award-winning thriller writer Hank Schwaeble.