Susan L. Alandar has written fantasy since she was a child. She grew up on Robert Heinlein and Ray Bradbury and Madeline L’Engle, discovering epic fantasy (Tolkien, of course) about the time Heinlein broke into adult work with Glory Road. But she gave up the fragile hope of a writing career when she became an abandoned mother of two and needed a stable income. In retrospect Susan would say she needed the raw experience of the real world to bring her writing to life. Now, years later, she has returned to her fantasy world of Hiraeth, ready to share The Daughter of Prophecy series with the world.