About the Author

Carper Smith grew up outside a small farming town in northern California. As a child, she played trumpet and piano, participated in sports, sang in her church’s youth choir, raised pigs for 4-H, and discovered she loved ballet and writing stories more than all the other things she tried.

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Through her teen years, ballet and writing competed for her attention, but writing eventually won. She graduated from college with a Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing, moved to New Mexico and promptly found a job working as a secretary. Later she became a language arts teacher then a physical education teacher. Throughout it all, she kept writing and nursing her dream of becoming a published author.

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Carper has lived in Northern and Southern California, New Mexico, Oregon, Missouri, and Florida in a string of houses and apartments which always seem to find their way into her novels. She is currently living in Northern California with her cat, Gracie (the Wonder Muse).

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