JOYCE SCARBROUGH is a Southern woman who is 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. Joyce writes both adult and YA fiction, and also does freelance editing for select clients. In addition to her novels, she also has short stories published in multiple anthologies. She is active her local writers' guild and also in the Southern Breeze 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.