Susan D. Peters, is a native of Chicago’s south side. Stolen Rainbow is her first novella. A second novella will be published by paperback romance giant Harlequin Books. Her first book, the spellbinding memoir, Sweet Liberia: Lessons from the Coal Pot, chronicling her eleven years in Liberia, West Africa, and their escape during the Liberian Civil War, received the 2010 Black Excellence Award for Non-Fiction by the African American Alliance of Chicago, and in 2011 the book was awarded a prize for Non-Fiction from the Illinois Woman's Press Association. Broken Dolls, Susan’s second novel, is the first of a series featuring the flawed Detective Joi Sommers as its heroine. Other books Baring It All: the Ins and Outs of Publishing; Signed, Sealed, Delivered ... I’m Yours, a romance anthology; The Anthology of the Illinois Woman’s Press Association, a collection of the works of twenty-three women writers. Susan also writes for Garden Spices, a magazine focused on kaleidovision — seeing and experiencing the richness of diversity. She is a highly regarded community relations professional and the producer/host of the “Community Health Focus Hour” on WVON 1690AM, the Talk of Chicago