Lisa CookeAfter 25 years of teaching high school biology, Lisa decided to tackle her first novel. It was, of course, abysmal, but the love of writing took hold, giving her a new goal in life. She wanted to be published by the time she retired from teaching. Seen novels and four years later, she sold her first manuscript to Dorchester Publishing four weeks after retiring from the classroom.Lisa and her husband live on a seventy acre farm in southern Ohio with a Maltese who thinks he owns the place. She has two grown and married children and the world's most perfect granddaughter, who also thinks she owns the place--though in her case, that might be right.You can visit her website at www.lisahistoricals.com Read More Read Less