Lara Morgan is a first-generation Australian of Croatian and Bermudian descent. She wrote her first book when she was seven - a plagiarised version of The Magic Faraway Tree - and has been writing on and off ever since. She has worked in community arts and at a community newspaper but now spends most of her time writing. Awakening, Book One of her adult trilogy, The Twins of Saranthium, was released in 2008 by Pan Macmillan. Book Two in the series, Betrayal was released in March 2010.