Lucinda Hare was born in Scotland and spent her childhood years roaming the local woods with her dogs, imagining worlds where wolves, knights and dragons battled in deep forests. She and her husband share their Edinburgh home with an ever-changing number of rescue animals, ranging from cats, dogs, rabbits and guinea pigs to escaped battery hens on the run. She specializes in cruelty cases and animals with behavioural problems, and friends often comment that she can weave magic and talk to the animals – a real life ‘whisperer’! Her debut novel, The Dragon Whisperer, was shortlisted for the 2010 Royal Mail Scottish Book Awards.