Barbara Ebel is a physician who sprinkles credible medicine into the background of her novels, but her plots and characters take center stage. She lives with her husband and pets in a wildlife corridor in Tennessee and has lived up and down the East coast. Besides her first novel "Operation Neurosurgeon: You never know ... who's in the OR," Barbara Ebel is the author and illustrator of the children's picture book series "Chester the Chesapeake." Chester is the author's therapy dog who is much beloved in area nursing homes and schools. Visit her at her website: http: //barbaraebel.weebly.com