Rowan McKinley is a pen name for this Massachusetts-based teen author. She has been writing stories since a very young age, and this is her first book. This story began as a project for her senior fall semester and grew until it is the story you are reading now. Rowan would like to thank Norah for her editing of the first several drafts and Emily for helping her to edit later drafts and also for keeping it a surprise from Norah until graduation. Rowan will be attending college in New York to continue her study of writing and hopes to write many more books in her lifetime.