Melissa Eskue Ousley is the award-winning author of "The Solas Beir Trilogy," a young adult fantasy series. Her first book, "Sign of the Throne," won a 2014 Eric Hoffer Book Award and a 2014 Readers' Favorite International Book Award. "The Sower Comes," Book Three in the trilogy, won a 2016 Eric Hoffer Book Award.Melissa lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family, a piranha, and their Kelpie, Gryphon. When she's not writing, she can be found hiking, swimming, scuba diving, or walking along the beach, poking dead things with a stick.Before she became a writer, Melissa had a number of jobs that contributed to her education and enlightenment, ranging from a summer spent scraping road kill off a molten desert highway, to years of conducting social science research with an amazing team of educators at the University of Arizona. Her interests in psychology, culture, and mythology influenced her writing of "The Solas Beir Trilogy."
"I loved it, loved it, and loved it. The writing was really great. I think Melissa did a really great job with The Rabbit and the Raven from start to finish. I really liked how it started where book one left off. I found it very hard to put this story down. I just wanted to keep turning the pages." -Johnnie-Marie Howard, Whispered Thoughts
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