Jerena Tobiasen - award-winning author of The Prophecy, a 3-volume, historical fiction saga including The Crest, The Emerald, and The Destiny - lives in Vancouver, Canada. Jerena's latest novel - Tsarina's Jewels - is sister to Tsarina's Crown, and the second novel in her latest adventure: The Nightingale and Sparrow Chronicles. Jerena embellishes her writing by travelling to foreign lands, visiting museums and libraries, conducting interviews, and travelling in the footsteps of her characters. Her experiences and discoveries enrich the authenticity of the historical fiction she crafts. Jerena has travelled extensively throughout the United Kingdom, France, southern Europe, the Mediterranean, northern Africa, Russia, Scandinavia and the Arctic collecting data for her latest series The Nightingale and Sparrow Chronicles.