Ros Haywood is a technical publications librarian, living and working in the Southwest of England. She enjoys playing the organ for her church, reading, reading, and more reading, and is working on SCARLET DIAMOND (the second book in the Gemstone Girls series). Ros regularly takes part in the madness which is NaNoWriMo (writing 50,000 words in a month), and started by drafting Star Trek novels Synchronicity and Guardian Angel.Visit her at www.rosweb.org.uk