Pia Orleane, Ph.D. is the winner of multiple awards, including the Nautilus Gold Book Award, and the COVR Awards for Visionary Fiction and Divination. The former practicing psychologist lives in Europe with her husband, Cullen Baird Smith, co-author of 4 books on human evolution, including the Wisdom From the Stars Trilogy and Pleiadian-Earth Energy Astrology-Charting the Spirals of Consciousness. Many of these books, including Sacred Retreat, are translated into Italian, French, German, Russian, and Chinese. For more information, see piaorleane.com and laarkmaa.com.