About the Author

Nancy Learned Haines worked seventeen years as an engineer, then ran an antiquarian bookstore for twenty-five years. After her retirement, she fulfilled a lifelong dream to be an author.

She published a nonfiction book about Quaker relief service in France during WWI based on the love letters of two pacifists and a picture book about spiritual decision making for Quaker children. Her first novel presents the story of the Quakers who were the original European settlers of Hillsborough, North Carolina, where she and her husband now reside. Nancy recently published a nonfiction history of the Quakers in her town and researching the lives of other early Quaker women.

She is the treasurer of the Quakers Uniting in Publications, an international organization of writers, publishers, and journals involved in the ministry of the written word. She is also a member of the North Carolina Writers Network.