BROOKE NEWMAN is a best-selling author and an award-winning playwright. Her previous titles (including the hugely successful THE LITTLE TERN, which was crafted into a play and made into a musical CD in Japan, and her critically acclaimed releases JENNIEMAE AND JAMES as well as ISSUES AND TRENDS IN HEALTH) have in total sold more than two million copies in seventeen countries worldwide. NOT ALWAYS HOME BEFORE DARK is the author's sixth published book. The mother of four adult children, the author resides in Aspen Colorado.