Mandy Hager is an award-winning writer and educator based in
Wellington, New Zealand. She has a drive to tell stories that
matter-direct, powerful stories with something to say. She won the 2010
New Zealand Post Children's Book Award for Young Adult Fiction for The Crossing, the first book in The Blood of the Lamb series. She is also the author of Into the Wilderness, the second book in The Blood of the Lamb series.