Joan Donaldson is the author of two other novels set in Historic Rugby, On Viney's Mountain and Hearts of Mercy. The Christian Science Monitor has published her essays, and they air on Michigan Public Radio. Accompanied by her cats, Turnip and Puca, she writes from her yellow house nestled on an organic blueberry farm in Michigan. Every year to honor their deceased son, her husband plants four acres of poppies that draw hundreds of visitors who find comfort, beauty, and peace in the waving red flowers. In her free time, Joan sews quilts, gardens, plays a small harp, and pretends with her grandchildren.
