Nancy Reed lives in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada, in Central California. Where she has all kinds of animals as companions. She is the author of many books, including SciFi fantasy stories and murder mysteries. She works as a full-time artist and records music in her spare time. Her passion is endurance riding, on mountainous rides of 50 to 100 miles in one day. Battling cancer has set her back, but she hopes to one day compete on horse back again. Now she hopes to share her heart-felt stories of the animals she loves in her books of short stories.