Dedication for Book: For my late husband Bob, gone but always near; and who believed when I
was still working my way there.

WattPad Bio: Jo-Anna Jones is a lifelong observer, listener, story collector, storyteller and
writer. She started early, with her parents’ German folk community in northwestern Pennsylvania
and continued in travels following her baseball player-manager dad. The habit stuck as she
moved to Louisiana, another folk community, and worked with local governments and regional
planning commissions. She writes a blog www.joannawriting.com and just finished a novel titled
The Sheriff Kills Kids. She is working on another, as yet untitled, novel.