Emma Campion is a pseudonym of the popular historical crime writer Candace Robb. The King's Mistress & A Triple Knot grew out of the deep research for her Owen Archer series. The first is a biographical novel about Alice Perrers, the second about Joan of Kent, two fascinating women in the court of King Edward III. Candace/Emma has read and researched medieval history for many years, having studied for a Ph.D in Medieval and Anglo-Saxon Literature. She lives in Seattle and medieval York.