Award-winning, best-selling novelist Stephanie Grace Whitson began playing with imaginary friends (i.e., writing fiction) when an abandoned pioneer cemetery near the Whitson's country home provided both a hands-on history lesson for her four home schooled children and a topic of personal study. When not writing or researching, Stephanie enjoys reading, quilting, spoiling her grandchildren and/or Kona Kai (the golden retriever), riding her motorcycle named Kitty-and dreaming of Paris. Learn more at www.stephaniewhitson.com