Candace Armstrong writes in the beautiful woodlands of Southern Illinois. Poetry is her muse and she has had poems published in The Lyric, Midwest Review, Journal of Modern Poetry, California Quarterly, Distilled Lives and also online at Quill and Parchment among several others. Sometimes her poetry becomes prose published online as short stories and essays. Now she has relocated to the country where she writes, gardens, and hikes with her husband and their canine child, Murphy. This is her first novel.