In this fictionalized account of real events, a female wolf named Marta, along with her young family, sets out on an epic journey to return to their home hunting grounds in Montana after they are mistakenly relocated by a group of naturalists. Told believably from Marta’s point of view, the story takes the reader deep into a wolf's world, as Marta's determination to protect her pups and find their way home takes her on adventures that are by turns heart warming, perilous, and ultimately tragic.
I've always been a word person. I started reading before anyone realized it, least of all me; I still remember the look on my family's faces when I first read aloud from the breakfast menu of a railroad dining car. That was very cool. Writing came later, at my little desk in my little room in Orland Park, Illinois; I was trying to make letters with my left hand when my favorite sitter Henrietta said, "No, sweetie, we write with our right hand."
Books were my escape, my passion, my hunger. In elementary school the check-out rule was only two books a week, but I was blessed to have a school librarian who somehow knew I needed more, and let me take home a whole stack every week.
After college I got more interested in life than reading, but it wasn't long before I started turning those interests into writing. I'm an incurably curious person, and I love adventure; nothing pleases me more than to have a writing project that calls me out into the world to learn, to experience, and to explore.
