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