Petie spent a large part of her career working as a biologist at the Walt Disney World Resort -- "The Most Magical Place on Earth" -- where she enjoyed working in the land of fairy tales by day and creating her own romantic fairy tales by night. She eventually said goodbye to her "day" job in order to write her stories full-time. Petie is a member of Romance Writers of America, and she shares homes in Tennessee and Florida with her horticulturist husband, a spoiled rotten English Springer Spaniel addicted to pimento-stuffed green olives, and a noisy Nanday conure named Sassy who made a cameo appearance in Angel to the Rescue. Visit Petie's web site online at www.petiemccarty.com oir her Facebook page at www.facebook.com/petiemccarty