While employed as Business Manager for an Assisted Living/Alzheimer's Community in Oceanside, California, Linda Hughes was inspired to write YESTERDAY FOREVER GONE. She has many fond memories of family vacations in the Morro Bay and Cayucos areas, especially of their boys fishing off the Cayucos Pier. Presently retired, Linda lives in Southern California with her husband, Jim, and their dog, Maggie. YESTERDAY FOREVER GONE is her third novel.