Joy Freemen was born in New Jersey and worked as a wild-animal trainer and stunt double in Hollywood for thirteen years. She currently lives in Fort Bragg, California, and teaches a class on word processing for authors.
I gave it four because mz. freeman was amazing with characters and dialogue, but in this one I suspect the plot ran away from her. Every twist left me exhausted rather than energized. Still, I wish mz. freeman had continued to write, she had a gift for making the people she wrote about breathe.