AnnaDrake is an award-winning, small-town journalist. She     grew up on a small grain farm and has spent most of her         adult life in rural Illinois, except for a fascinating, thirteen-     year stint in Chicago.She is mother to three wonderful,           grown sons; mother-in-law to their outstanding wives; and     grandmother to four exceptional grandchildren.  




Over the course of her life, she's worked as waitress, academic advisor, full-time mother, and small-town reporter, among other things. Now that she is retired she is turning her hand to her long-term love, fiction.