VICKI GRANT is the author of seventeen books, including 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You (which has been sold in twenty-two territories and translated into seventeen languages), Quid Pro Quo, Tell Me When You Feel Something and A Green Velvet Secret, which has been shortlisted for the Ann Connor Brimer Award and the Snow Willow Award. Quid Pro Quo was shortlisted for an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America and was included as a "best book" by the New York Public Library, Bank Street College, and The Canadian Children's Book Centre, and won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Juvenile Crime fiction in Canada. She lives in Nova Scotia, Canada.