Ellen Marie Wiseman is a New York Times bestselling author of seven novels, including her most recent work, The Lies They Told. Her other works include Lost Girls of Willowbrook, The Orphan Collector, The Life She Was Given, Coal River, What She Left Behind, and The Plum Tree. She loves to write suspenseful historical sagas about everyday people caught up in extraordinary circumstances while shining a light on little-known social injustices of the past and celebrating the resiliency of the human spirit.
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