Terri Farley lives in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains with her journalist husband, two children and pets, but still longs for the California beaches where she grew up. She's worked as a waitress, journalist and teacher and now writes full-time, most often barefoot, with a cat on her lap. She is the author of Seven Tears into the Sea, the Phantom Stallion series for young readers and many nonfiction magazine articles.