Dayle Carnahan McKinney lives in Morongo Valley, California, with her husband on Rose Eden Drive—the street named for her husband’s Palm Springs pioneer grandmother, Rose. Their ho...view moreDayle Carnahan McKinney lives in Morongo Valley, California, with her husband on Rose Eden Drive—the street named for her husband’s Palm Springs pioneer grandmother, Rose. Their home is near one of only two natural bird migration sanctuaries in America, Big Morongo Preserve. The Silver Branch is a work of fiction based on the culmination of eight years’ genealogical research by McKinney.view less