Anna York has been in love with Hatteras Island and the village of Waves since her first visit there in 1992. She started writing the stories of Jeromie Greene and his friends in the 1990s and decided dig them out of storage in 2013. She's enjoyed bringing her characters into the digital age and giving them new trials and tribulations. She is currently working on her doctorate in education when she isn't writing books or traveling the country to see pandas.