Annie spent most of her childhood with a leg draped over the family rocking chair and a book in her hand. Novels, baking and writing too much teenage angst poetry ate up most of her youth. Now, Annie splits her time between corralling her husband into helping her with their cows, listening to audio books whilst weeding and spending some very happy hours at her computer writing.Bornand raised on the Wirral Peninsula in England, CharlotteHawkes is mum to two intrepid boys who love her to play building blockgames with them, and object loudly to the amount of time she spends on thecomputer. When she isn’t writing—or building with blocks—she is companydirector for a small Anglo/French construction firm. Charlotte loves to hearfrom readers, and you can contact her at her website: charlotte-hawkes.com.