Carol Anne Shaw is an art teacher at a private boarding school where she enjoys assisting young artists on their creative journeys. In return, her students' conversations have provided inspiration for her characters in both her first novel, Hannah & the Spindle Whorl, and its sequel, Hannah and the Salish Sea. Carol Anne shares her home in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island with her artist/sculptor husband and her beagle, Eddie. She has two grown sons. Please visit her at www.carolanneshaw.com