New York Times bestselling author Ellery Adams writes the Secret, Book, and Scone Society Mysteries, the Book Retreat Mysteries, the Books by the Bay Mysteries, and the Charmed Pie Shoppe Mysteries, as well as several eBook-only mysteries. She writes from her home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, which she shares with her husband, two trolls, and three keyboard-hogging felines. Ms. Adams loves coffee, champagne, kickboxing, 1000-piece jigsaw puzzles, Pinterest, and black jelly beans.