About the Author

Emma Hine’s love of writing started with poetry when she was just a child. In her late twenties, Emma bridged the gap from poetry to writing a novel. Despite not publishing her debut until 2025, The Power of the Wouivre was actually written in 2004

“I have always had a deep fascination with time travel and have also always enjoyed research so the idea of a historical novel came naturally. As a lover of Italy and, in particular, Florence, the setting for my debut was easy to ascertain. But I wanted to do something different and show the city in a way it might not have been shown before so I chose the Middle Ages – a time before the great architecture of the Renaissance turned it into the beautiful city we all know today.

The young adult genre was literally decided for me by the characters as I wrote them and the plot developed from there.

The Power of the Wouivre: Fiorenza is my debut novel. If you want to know what a wouivre is, you can find out here“

There was no AI used in the production of The Power of the Wouivre. Instead I relied on a fantastic team of editors and artists:

• Chelsea at Stand Corrected Editing for line editing
• Scarlett at ScarlettInk Editing for proofreading
• Clare Roper-Paris for the wonderful wouivre image of both books and Fiorentine towers on the cover of Fiorenza