Kay Charles is the much nicer mystery-writing alter ego of dark fiction writer Patricia Lillie (author of The Cuckoo Girls, a 2020 Bram Stoker Award(R) finalist.) Like her evil twin, Kay grew up in a haunted house in a small town in Northeast Ohio, earned her MFA from Seton Hill University's Writing Popular Fiction program, teaches in Southern New Hampshire University's MFA in Creative Writing program, and is addicted to coffee, chocolate, and cake. Both their lives would be much easier if one of them enjoyed housework.