Deborah Heal is the author of the Time and Again history mystery trilogy and the Rewinding Time Series: inspirational novels of history, mystery & romance, which have been described as "Back to the Future meets virtual reality with a dash of Seventh Heaven thrown in." She was born not far from the Old Slave House featured in her novel Every Hill and Mountain and grew up just down the road from the settings of Time and Again and Unclaimed Legacy. As a child she was intrigued by stories of the southern Illinois river pirates and wrote about them in How Sweet the Sound. Today she lives with her h...