Maria E. Schneider

Maria Schneider grew up in New Mexico where the desert environment required that she embellish the landscape with her imagination. After working in the computer industry for twelve years, she decided technology moved too slowly, and again put her imagination to work, creating messes and then inventing characters to handle all the clean up. She currently resides near Austin, Texas.

"Executive Lunch" is the first in the Sedona O'Hala series. Sedona is given the opportunity of a lifetime: play an up-and-coming executive with all the trappings of wealth with someone else footing the bill. The catch: find out who is stealing company funds before the criminals find out that their program is being debugged. Sedona runs into danger, the corporate glass ceiling, and an occasional chance at romance in her quest.

"Under Witch Moon" is the first in an urban fantasy series. Under Witch Aura will be released in 2011.

Maria has several anthologies and short stories:

Year of the Mountain Lion is available for Kindle and was published by Darwin's Evolutions.

"Tracking Magic" contains five case files from Max Killian Investigations.

"Sage: Tales from a Magical Kingdom:" There is danger and intrigue, castles, ghosts, dungeons, possible dragons--and magic, of course.

For more information about Maria visit: www.BearMountainBooks.com.