About the Author

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."

Reviews

"Melissa writes YA fantasy beautifully. Her attention to details and her characters shine through. I have read all three books in The Solas Beir Trilogy and watched her characters evolve. I do enjoy her villains. She writes them well. The Sower Comes is a fitting end to this wonderful YA fantasy trilogy." --Michelle Auricht, Novels on the Run