JOYCE SCARBROUGH is a Southern woman weary of seeing herself and her peers portrayed in books and movies as either post-antebellum debutantes or barefoot hillbillies á la Daisy Duke, so all her heroines are smart, unpretentious women who refuse to be anyone but themselves. In addition to her novels, Joyce also has several short stories available as free downloads. She writes both adult and YA fiction and is active in her local writers' guild as well as the regional chapter of SCBWI. Joyce has lived all her life in beautiful LA (lower Alabama), she's the mother of three gifted children and a blind Pomeranian named Tilly, and she's been married for over 30 years to the love of her life-a superhero who disguises himself during the day as a high school math teacher and coach.