About the Author

Novelist Elaine Marie Cooper describes herself as a history geek. Her bookshelves are filled with volumes about the American Revolution, an era she became fascinated with when growing up in Massachusetts. Her passions are her family, her faith in Christ and writing - usually about the American Revolution, a frequent subject of her novels. She is the award-winning author of Bethany's Calendar, the Deer Run saga (The Road to Deer Run, The Promise of Deer Run, and The Legacy of Deer Run, and Fields of the Fatherless. Elaine is also a contributing writer to Fighting Fear, Winning the War at Home by Edie Melson, and I Choose You, a romance anthology. Her freelance work has appeared in both newspapers and magazines, and she blogs regularly at ColonialQuills.blogspot.com as well as her own blog on her website at ElaineMarieCooper.com