Elizabeth May
4 SeriesElizabeth May is an American author known for her YA fantasy series, The Falconer. She holds a PhD from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, where she now resides in Edinburgh with her husband and two cats.
In "The Falconer" by Elizabeth May, set in Edinburgh in 1844, Aileana Kameron appears as an aristocratic young lady but is secretly hunting the faeries, called sithichean, who killed her mother. Discovering she is the last Falconer, a lineage of female warriors, Aileana learns she is humanity's only hope against a faery onslaught. Her mission evolves from personal revenge to a battle for survival as she confronts the powerful faery population threatening to destroy humanity.
