Catherine Hart lives in Ohio, where she was born and raised, though her heart and imagination often roam west of the Mississippi and a century or more into the past. She is the mother of three grown children and a proud new "Nana". She credits her success to a firm belief in true and lasting love, an overactive imagination, an insatiable thirst for knowledge, an off-the-wall sense of humor, and the numerous readers who enjoy sharing her adventures into bygone eras.