Diane Gockel is a former high school teacher who has devoted much of her life to rescuing, fostering and adopting homeless and neglected pets and now enjoys writing a series of children’s stories inspired by real animal rescues. She is a featured author for Microsoft’s Skype In The Classroom program, where she reads books from her Rescue Series to children all over the United States and beyond. She and her husband have four grown children, two grandchildren and live on a small rescue farm in Sammamish, Washington. Her motto in life is “Be your purpose. This certainly isn’t something everyone would do, but it truly is my purpose.”