Paulette Mahurin, acclaimed author of The Seven Year Dress, is an international Amazon best-selling literary fiction and historical fiction novelist. She grew up in West Los Angeles and attended UCLA, where she received a Master's Degree in Science. She lives with her husband, Terry, and dog, Bella, in Ventura County, California, where she can be found tending to her natural habitat garden, exercising, doing volunteer work, attending the theater, and handing out dog treats to the neighborhood canines.