A former youth librarian who grew up running wild in the Barossa Ranges of South Australia, Lyndall Clipstone currently lives in Adelaide in a hundred-year-old cottage with her partner, two children, and a shy black cat. She is the author of the lush gothic-romance duology, Lakesedge and Forestfall, the first novel of which was a Dymocks, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble bestseller, nominated for the 2021 Book Shimmy Awards, and selected as one of Better Reading's 2022 top 50 kids' books. Her works have been published in more than four countries, including multiple translations. Unholy Terrors is her third novel.