Karen Emilson is the author of Also Known as Jaime Dorn, historical novelBe Still the Water and the bestselling biographies, Where Children Run, When Memories Remain and My Every Breath. She is an award winning former newspaper reporter and freelance writer. Like Jaime Dorn, she grew up in Southern Ontario and settled in Manitoba’s Interlake region, an area well-known for its rugged landscape and resilient people. All of her books are based there, and the fictional stories she tells are inspired by small-town life. Now she lives in Winnipeg, but during the summer she returns to Steep Rock—where the air is fresh, the water pristine, and the characters who live inside her come to life.