Victoria Dougherty is the author of three acclaimed Cold War historical thrillers, The Bone Church, The Hungarian, and Welcome to the Hotel Yalta. Her epic fantasy romance series, including Savage Island and the forthcoming Breath are her newest works of fiction. Readers have called Savage Island breathtaking, mesmerizing, and genre-defying. Ms. Dougherty's work has been published or profiled in the New York Times, USA Today, The International Herald Tribune, and elsewhere. Her blog - COLD - features her short essays on faith, family, love, and writing. WordPress, the blogging platform that hosts some 70 million blogs worldwide, has singled out COLD as one of the Top 50 Recommended Blogs by writers or about writing.