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Before turning to writing full-time in 2008, M. F. (Mimi) Jones worked in publishing. She got her start at Viking Press where, as an editorial assistant, she discovered the bestseller Ordinary People by Judith Guest in the slush pile, and became its editor.

She then moved to magazines and was a fiction editor at Redbook and a senior editor at Family Circle and Reader’s Digest. Her feature articles and columns have been published in those and other magazines.

When not writing, she can be found reading, knitting (while listening to audiobooks), singing in a choir, or hiking with her rescue dog. She lives in Tennessee with her husband, composer Douglas Hedwig. Stones River is her first novel, and the first book of The Sentinel Heart Trilogy. C ...more

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STONES RIVER (THE SENTINEL HEART TRILOGY Book 1)

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