Bay Area author Adina Sara published her first essay when an undergraduate at UC Berkeley during the turbulent 60's.  Since then, she has gone on to publish 2 memoirs, one about her unintentional career as a legal secretary, and the other about her relationship with an unruly garden.  Her debut novel, (Regent Press, 2015) was inspired by a piece of country property that she purchased on a whim, and then sold. The essence of the landscape stayed with her and became the backdrop of her novel.