Kat Karpenko has had a varied writing career in technical writing, journalism, short stories. This, her first novel, originally started as a short story but with encouragement from...view moreKat Karpenko has had a varied writing career in technical writing, journalism, short stories. This, her first novel, originally started as a short story but with encouragement from her Mazatlan writer's group she expanded the concept to a two-part historical fiction. Born in Windsor, Ontario, she has also lived in Edmonton, Alberta, Bristol plus London, England, and Melbourne, Australia. However, she has spent most of her life in Nova Scotia where she worked in various administrative capacities at Dalhousie University in Halifax. Now retired, she divides her time between Mazatlán, Mexico and Canada.view less