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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 in the Tennessee woods near the home she shares with her husband, composer Douglas Hedwig. Stones River, which won a Silver Medal in the 2026 IBPA Book Awards, is her firs ...more

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STONES RIVER (THE SENTINEL HEART TRILOGY Book 1)

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