Her favorite pastime of writing journals and novels began at an early age, but she was too shy to go to the publishing level until now. An avid reader, she enjoys the works of William Shakespeare, Dan Brown, Katie Fforde, Jude Deveraux- just to name a few.  She was driven to write this novel after having dealt with some of these issues first hand, and is convinced that - there is a road which we travel that enables us to keep our heads above the quicksand.