Fran Cannon Slayton is a native of Manassas and Haymarket, Virginia. She attended high school at St. Mary's Academy in Alexandria, and later graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. After briefly working on Capitol Hill, Fran graduated from UVA's law school and became a child sex abuse prosecutor, legal publisher, and title insurance agency owner before writing her debut novel, When the Whistle Blows. more...
