Barbara Youree is a freelance writer who has written 12 books in 12 years and is working on number 13. She began writing following a teaching career in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Kansas. She served as a docent at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, for six years and as Contributing Editor of Potpourri, A Magazine of the Literary Arts for eight. She has written a series of Christian romances for Heartsong Presents and six children's books for Beacon Hill Press. Her many magazine articles have appeared in such diverse publications as Fate, True Reports of the Strange & Unknown; Miracles Magazine; Mature Living; and Spider, the Magazine for Children.