Lauren Stone has served as a college administrator and psychotherapist in Cleveland, Ohio and Durango, CO. She has co-authored several books and articles in those fields. In her first venture into fiction writing, she uses what she has learned from her professional experience to create genuine characters who display her knowledge and understanding of their strengths and her compassion for their humanness. She lives with her husband and their aging dog, Brandy, in Weeki Wachee, Florida.