Novelist, Reviewer, Content Editor, and Blogger, Tracy A. Ball is a native Baltimorean and a veteran West Virginian whose family is blended from three cultures. She's opened her home to foster children, drug addicts, AIDS victims and anyone who needed an assist. She has an equal number of liberal and conservative friends. She knows people who have committed murder and people who have dined with the Pope. Which is why she writes sweet stories about tough love.