Una McCormack is the author of the "Star Trek" novels The Fall: The Crimson Shadow "(a New York Times "bestseller); ""Cardassia The Lotus Flower" (which appeared in "Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Volume 1"); "The Never-Ending Sacrifice"; "Hollow Men"; and Brinkmanship"; as well as two "Doctor Who" novels, "The King s Dragons" and "The Way Through the Woods", and numerous short stories. She lives with her partner, Matthew, in Cambridge, England, where she reads, writes, and teaches.