I live in a hundred-year-old farmhouse with my husband and an ever-changing number of kids, cats, dogs and bees. I've loved books for as long as I can remember. When I was five, my father marched me into the library and introduced me to the head librarian with, "Anything you would ever need to know, Mr. Thorne here can find you a book about it." I've never doubted it since.

Some of my favorite authors are Elmer Kelton, Billie Letts, Lou Berney and Lisa Wingate. However, if I could ever find a book that is a cross-bred True Grit and Pride and Prejudice, I'd quit looking for the perfect book.