Susan Dobbie was born and educated in Edinburgh, Scotland. After immigrating to Canada, she worked with her husband in the family business and raised three children. She received her B.A. from Simon Fraser University as a mature student and for ten years has worked as a volunteer docent at the Langley Centennial Museum, where she gained an in-depth understanding of the early Hawaiians living on the Northwest Coast. When Eagles Call is her first novel. She lives in Langley and at Harrison Lake, BC.