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Sunny R. Winstead

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Sunny R. Winstead is an occupational therapy (OT) professor, currently working at the MGH Institute of Health Professions in Boston. She has written professionally for years, but just recently turned her hand to fiction writing. "The Lady Guardian" is her first novel, and the first book in The Realm of Light series. Her second book, "The Dark Lake," will be published in May. Sunny lives in New York with her husband and three sons. ...more

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