Emily Bain Murphy is the USA TODAY bestselling author of two historical mysteries for adults, The Ivory City and Enchanted Hill. She is also the author of two young adult fantasies: The Disappearances, which was a Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year, an ALAN Pick, and was shortlisted for the Waterstones’ Children’s Book Prize; and Splinters of Scarlet, which received multiple starred reviews and was nominated for the Mark Twain Readers Award. A Kingdom of Shadows is Emily’s middle grade debut.