Rachael Herron is the internationally bestselling author of the novel Pack Up the Moon, the five-book Cypress Hollow romance series, and the memoir, A Life in Stitches. She received her MFA in writing from Mills College, and when she's not busy writing, she's a 911 fire/medical dispatcher for a Bay Area fire department. Rachael is struggling to learn the accordion and can probably play along with you on the ukulele. She's a New Zealander as well as an American. She's been known to knit.