Una McCormack is the author of ten previous Star Trek novels: The Lotus Flower (part of The Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine trilogy), Hollow Men , The Never-Ending Sacrifice , Brinkmanship , The Missing , the New York Times bestseller The Fall: The Crimson Shadow , Enigma Tales, Discovery: The Way to the Stars , the acclaimed USA Today bestseller Picard: The Last Best Hope , and Discovery: Wonderlands . She is also the author of five Doctor Who novels from BBC Books: The King's Dragon , The Way Through the Woods , Royal Blood , Molten Heart , and All Flesh is Grass . She has written numerous short stories and audio dramas. She lives with her family in Cambridge, England.