Sumner, Kathy Lee

After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from Auburn University, Kathy Lee Sumner wrote and free-lanced for several publications along Florida's gulf coast, from her hometown of Pensacola to her current location in Naples. In 2003, she began writing novels as a hobby while raising her two children and working on her Florida teaching certification. In 2006, her father was diagnosed with lung cancer. This motivated Sumner to finish one of the manuscripts she had been creating, chapters of which she would send him to read for entertainment while he was ill. Also a native Floridian,...