Donna Montalbano is an award-winning advertising copywriter, journalist, writing instructor and book mentor. She is a former New England radio talk show host. Her first book, The House on Benefit Street, is the story of a haunted widow in a haunted house on Providence, Rhode Island's "Mile of History". Someplace Else...is there Love After Death? is her second book and her first foray into the young adult paranormal romance genre. It was inspired by her fascination with the mysterious wilderness that is the New Jersey Pine Barrens...and by paranormal events which happened in her own life, when she was a teenager.