Susan Kelleher is the author of The Spirit Dogs Trilogy, and this is Volume 2. Volume 1 is entitled Spirit Dogs: Heroes In Heaven. It is an illustrated short story for those grieving the loss of a canine companion. Volume 3 is entitled Spirit Dogs: Heroes Return. Kelleher's first two volumes have won major book awards, and the third was just released in 2013. She has three graduate degrees, one of which is a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Western Michigan University. She has also written, under her real name, Susan L. Metzger, a very different type of novel called Two Boys. It is based on the true case of a satanic cult operating a child pornography ring out of a daycare center—very different from the talking dogs in The Spirit Dogs Trilogy.