Brenda Rickman Vantrease’s first novel The Illuminator, was published by St. Martin’s Press in 2005, and was translated into fourteen foreign languages and became a national best-seller. Her second novel, The Mercy Seller, was published by St. Martin’s Press in hardcover in 2007. Her newest novel, The Heretic’s Wife, was published by St. Martin’s in 2010. She attended the Community of Writers in 2002. www.brendarickmanvantrease.com
