Although Georgia author Maureen Hardegree concedes to having all the usual baggage of a middle child, she is NOT a ghost handler. She does, however, believe in connecting to her inner teenager and in feeding her active imagination-it likes Italian food and chocolate. When she's not writing, she's working on costumes for the Northeast Atlanta Ballet . . . or doing the bidding of her husband, daughter, and cats Pixie and Turnip Anne.

Maureen is a past president of Georgia Romance Writers and a member of SCBWI. She is also a longtime contributor to the Mossy Creek Hometown anthologies.