Susan Gooch has always believed that the best stories are the ones that make you feel something. A lifelong lover of romance and history in every form, whether it's a novel that keeps you up past midnight, a film that makes you ugly-cry, or a love story unfolding right in front of you, she brings that same passion to everything she writes. After more than twenty years of getting kids to fall head over heels for reading and writing, she turned her storytelling instincts loose on fiction. She's married to her high school sweetheart, is a mother, a Mimi, a daughter, a sister, and a friend. A small-town girl who's lived all over the world, her favorite place on earth is still at home in pajamas with a good book.