Dr. Lin Stepp is a New York Times, USA Today and Publishers Weekly Best-Selling international author. A native Tennessean, she also works as both a businesswoman and an educator. Although not actively teaching now, she is still on adjunct faculty at Tusculum College where she taught research and a variety of psychology and counseling courses for eighteen years. Her business background includes over twenty-five years in marketing, sales, production art, and regional publishing. Stepp writes engaging, heart-warming contemporary Southern fiction with a strong sense of place and has eleven published novels, each set in different locations around the Smoky Mountains. Her last novel, before Lost Inheritance (2018), was Daddy's Girl (2017), with previous novels, including Welcome Back (2016), Saving Laurel Springs (2015), Makin' Miracles (2015) and Down by the River (2014) published by Kensington of New York. Other earlier titles include: Second Hand Rose (2013), Delia's Place (2012), For Six Good Reasons (2011), Tell Me About Orchard Hollow (2010), and The Foster Girls (2009). In addition, Stepp and her husband J.L. Stepp have co-authored a Smoky Mountains hiking guidebook titled The Afternoon Hiker (2014) and a Tennessee state parks guidebook Discovering Tennessee State Parks (2018). For more about Stepp's work and to keep up with her monthly blog, ongoing appearances and signing events see: www.linstepp.com.