Author Terri Blakeslee has a BA in journalism and communications and an MA in history. Over her forty-year career, she worked as a freelance journalist and a public relations director, before feeling called to become an English teacher. The author of four other books and two volumes of theater scripts that have been performed, she can’t remember a time in her life when she wasn’t writing something. She and her husband, Bob, are residents of Newberry, Florida; they have been married forty years; and they are the parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents to a large and ever-growing family.