Kathy Pratt, a Registered Nurse, has been writing since junior high school. Her projects include articles for nursing journals, a medical thriller novel, travel columns for a newspaper, a Conversational English book for Finnish learners of English, a time-travel romance novel, a contemporary romance, and a young adult historical. When not writing, Kathy loves to travel the world and has been to 24 countries, some of them two and three times. She also enjoys painting, making jewelry, and working part-time as a hospice nurse. Kathy lives in Southern California with her husband. She is a guild member for Art4Healing.org, developed to support emotional healing through art & creative expression for those living with pain, grief, fear or stress.