Victoria Dougherty

Victoria Dougherty is the author of three acclaimed Cold War historical thrillers, THE BONE CHURCH, THE HUNGARIAN, and WELCOME TO THE HOTEL YALTA. Her epic historical fantasy series, including the novels BREATH, OF SAND AND BONE, and SAVAGE ISLAND are her newest works of fiction. Readers have called Ms. Dougherty's fiction breathtaking, mesmerizing, and genre-defying - who is she to argue?

Ms. Dougherty's work has been published or profiled in the New York Times, USA Today, The International Herald Tribune, and elsewhere.

Her blog – COLD (www.victoriadougherty.wordpress.com) – features her short essays on faith, family, love, and writing. WordPress, the blogging platform that hosts some 70 million blogs worldwide, has singled out COLD as one of the Top 50 Recommended Blogs by writers or about writing. Not bad for an immigrant kid from the Chicago suburbs.