Michigan-born S.A. McLain has worked as a pizza maker, bartender, interior designer and marketing manager. After moving to the UK, she got her financial planning qualifications and spent a number of years in financial services while writing novels in her spare time.

 

Her debut novel, When Red Is Blue, is a National Indie Excellence and Readers' Favorite award winner. She has also written articles for several travel and lifestyle websites and a three-part series on financial planning for Scottish Woman magazine.   

 

Blood on the Veld is the first book in the Christian Bekker Wildlife Crime Thriller series.

  

She lives in a village north of London with her husband and two house lions and loves an ice bath.