Barbara Hawes was born in Massachusetts and lived in Cohasset but moved at a very young age to Chappaqua, New York where she grew up. At nineteen, she moved to Connecticut and has been a resident ever since. She majored in art and graduated with a Bachelor's Degree from Southern Connecticut State University. This is Barbara's first novel. Barbara never considered writing creatively until a friend asked her if she wanted to sign up with NANOWRIMO.org. That's National Novel Writing Month. Their challenge is to write 50,000 words of a novel in the month of November. She and her friend took on this challenge and completed this first goal. Barbara continued this brand new endeavor and finished her novel and polished it up for about one year. This project is now a professionally written book. Barbara has been working in the commercial real estate field as a marketing administrator and a graphic designer. She is the proud mother of two grown boys.