Lynn Collins is the romance pen name for New York Times bestselling mystery author, Lynn Cahoon. Lynn Collins claims to be the daughter of Barnabas (Dark Shadows) and says she grew up in a dark, dank castle on the moors, waiting to be rescued. Finally, as all good heroines do, she rescued herself and now writes about happily ever afters in small town settings. Someday she hopes to write the next big gothic romance. She lives with her cat.