Carolyn Clare Givens is a displaced Northerner exploring the foreign ways of the South. She works at New City Church in North Carolina and does freelance editing and writing, as well as being a founder of Bandersnatch Books. Carrie lives in Charlotte with her literary cat, Lord Peter Wimsey. She has previously bumped around the world, both as a missionary kid and adult. She is the author of The King's Messenger and Rosefire.